Environmental science for environmental management

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of contributors = ⅸ
• Foreword = ⅹ
• Acknowledgements = xii
• Introduction : Environmental science on the move / Timothy O'Riordan = 1
• A challenge to science = 1
• Environmental science and interdisciplinarity = 2
• Broadening the scientific tradition = 6
• The precautionary principle = 8
• Environmental science as seen from the outside = 10
• Section A = 12
• Chapter 1 The global environment debate / Timothy O'Riordan = 16
• Editorial introduction = 16
• Excluding the commons = 19
• The UN Conference on Environment and Development = 20
• Finanding sustainable development = 24
• The Population question = 26
• Chapter 2 Environmental economics and management / R. Kerry Turner = 30
• Editorial introduction = 30
• Introduction = 32
• Scarcity and efficiency = 32
• Ecological Limits on the economy = 33
• Sustainable economic development = 36
• The issue of valuation = 39
• Pollution control policy = 40
• Conclusions = 40
• Chapter 3 Environmental and economic appraisal / Ian Bateman = 45
• Editorial introduction = 45
• Introduction = 47
• The appraisal framework = 47
• Monetary assessment methods = 48
• Sustainability constraints = 58
• Conclusions = 61
• Chapter 4 Human inpacts on terrestrial ecosystems / Alsstair Grant = 66
• Editorial introduction = 66
• Methods of study = 70
• Impacts on vegetation = 71
• Species' extinctions = 77
• Conclusions = 78
• Chapter 5 Ecosystem management and environmental ethics / John Barkham = 80
• Editorial introduction = 80
• Three vignettes = 81
• What is ecosystem management? = 83
• Exploitation and its consequences for ecosystems = 83
• Sustainable management of ecosystems = 87
• Global issues and local action = 88
• Ecosystem destruction or changes in approach = 89
• Management to maintain biodiversity = 93
• Habitat creation = 99
• Externalities in habitat management = 101
• Species conservation = 102
• Conclusions = 103
• Section B = 105
• Chapter 6 The threat of global warming / Keith clayton = 110
• Editorial introduction = 110
• Futurial global warming : how likely is it? = 113
• Greenhouse gases and the 'greenhouse effent' = 114
• Predicting the inpact of enhanced levels of 'greenhouse gases' = 118
• The impacts of future warming = 121
• What might we so to reduce future global warming? = 125
• Can the predictions be improved? = 128
• Chapter 7 River processes and management / Richard Hey = 131
• Editorial introduction = 131
• Introducton = 133
• Natural channel processes = 133
• Flood alleviation schemes = 135
• River stabilization = 140
• River restoration = 143
• Conclusions = 148
• Chapter 8 Coastal processes and management / Keith Clayton ; Timothy O'Riordan = 151
• Editorial introduction = 151
• Coastal Processes = 154
• Sea defence and coastal protection = 157
• Integrated coastal zone management = 161
• Chapter 9 Predictins sea-level rise and managing the consequences / Keith Clayton = 165
• Editorial introduction = 165
• Recent sea-level history = 167
• The response of the coast to current sea-level rese = 167
• Engineers and the stabilization of the coastline = 169
• Forecasting future sea-level rise = 173
• Adjusting to future sea-level = 173
• The concept of coastal zone management = 177
• Facing up to difficult choices : selectivity in CZM = 179
• The long-tern management of the coastal zone = 181
• Chapter 10 The oceans from space / Karen J. Heywood = 185
• Editorial introduction = 185
• Introduction = 187
• Satelite altimetry : the role of cean circulation in climate = 187
• Infrared radiometry : ocean eddies and coastal upwelling = 190
• Ocean colour sensing : ocean productivity = 191
• Microwave radiometry : polynyas = 193
• Conclusions = 194
• Chapter 11 The land from space / Keith Clayton = 198
• Editorial introduction = 198
• Remote sensing from satellites = 200
• Passive and active sensors = 200
• The data explosion = 200
• Pictures of digital data? = 202
• Resolution = 206
• Radar = 208
• Geographical Information Systems = 209
• The potential uses of satellite images = 212
• Land cover classification from remotely sensed data = 213
• Relief = 214
• Geology = 214
• Snow and ice = 215
• Oceans = 215
• Weather and climate = 216
• Global change = 218
• Natural hazards = 218
• Developing countries = 219
• Chapter 12 Soil erosion and land degradation / Michael Stocking = 223
• Editorial introduction = 223
• Introduction = 225
• Soil as a resource = 225
• Consequences of soil degradation = 227
• Processes of soil erosion = 229
• Assessment of soil erosion = 229
• Prediction and explanation of soil erosion = 233
• Soil and water conservation = 237
• Section C = 243
• Chapter 13 Groundwater pollution and protection / Kevin Hiscock = 246
• Editorial introduction = 246
• Introduction = 249
• Sources of goundwater pollution = 249
• Groundwater pollution in developing countries = 250
• Groundwater contamination in Sri Lanka = 254
• Groundwater protection in developing countries = 255
• Groundwater pollution in indestrialized countries = 256
• Groundwater contamination in Nassau County = 258
• Groundwater protection in indestrialized countries = 259
• Conclusions = 261
• Chapter 14 Marine and estuarine pollution / Alastair Grant ; Tim Jickells = 263
• Editorial introduction = 263
• Introduction = 165
• Contamination and pollution = 265
• Ways of detecting pollution = 266
• Sources of contaminants to the North Sea = 268
• Environmental damage by specific chemicals = 271
• Eutrophication = 277
• Bathing beaches = 279
• Litter = 280
• Conclusions = 281
• Chapter 15 Urban air pollution and its consequences / Peter Brimblecombe ; Frances Micholas = 283
• Editorial introduction = 283
• Historical background = 285
• Smoke = 285
• Gaseous pollutants = 286
• Smoke plus fog equals smog = 287
• Health ans smog = 287
• Other smoke damage = 288
• Smoke in the modern world = 290
• Photochemical smog = 290
• Effects of photochemical smog = 292
• Other changes and their effects = 293
• Solving the problem : the future = 293
• Chapter 16 Environmental risk management / Simon Gerrard = 296
• Editorial introduction = 296
• Introduction : the concept of safety = 299
• The concipt of risk management = 300
• Environmental fisk management = 307
• Risk communication = 311
• The role of experts in risk management = 313
• Conclusions = 313
• Chapter 17 Energy : hard choices ahead / Grodon Edge ; Keith Tovey = 217
• Editorial introduction = 317
• Introduction = 319
• A techno-social complex = 321
• Responding to environmental problems = 326
• No regrets : the example of energy efficiency = 328
• Energy supply : a new approach = 332
• Conclusions = 333
• Chapter 18 Preventing disease / Robin haynes = 335
• Editorial introduction = 335
• Clean water and sanitation = 337
• Air pollution = 338
• AIDS = 338
• Ultraviolet light and skin cancer = 340
• Rediation = 341
• Science and management = 342
• Chapter 19 Managing the global commons / Timothy O'Riordan = 347
• Editorial introduction = 347
• On managing commons = 348
• International environmental law = 349
• Soft law in action = 351
• Common heritage and global legal ethics = 351
• Regime theory and sustainability = 354
• The UN Commission on Sustainable development = 357
• Education for a sustainable future = 359
• The impediments to education for sustainability = 359
• List of journals = 361
• Index = 364