Ecology and Applied Environmental Science

ISBN-13: 9780367867768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 290 str.

Kimon Hadjibiros

Opis

This Open Access textbook presents a brief theoretical an engineering approach to ecology, based on energy, populations, and cycles of chemical elements, with a good selection of environmental problems with potential engineering, scientific, and managerial solutions.

Spis treści

Ecological Systems. Systems and Ecosystems. Organisms And Environmental Factors. Organization at Population Level. Organization at Ecosystem Level. Fundamentals of Environmental Problems. Values, Alterations and Degradation of The Natural Landscape. The Environment in the City. Toxic Pollution. Water Pollution. Air Pollution and Global Change. Management of Environmental Problems. Pollution Control Technology. Tools for Environmental Analysis, Evaluation and Management. Biodiversity and Landscape Protection. Environment and Development. Appendix. Bibliography.

O autorze

Kimon Hadjibiros is a physicist specialising in ecology and a Professor in the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. He has more than twenty five years' experience of teaching ecology for engineers, environmental management and policy.