Managing Soils and Terrestrial Systems

The Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, is a comprehensive guide to environmental problems, their sources, assessment, and solutions. It features insights from over 400 contributors and is organized into six volumes covering major environmental systems. The third volume, Managing Soils and Terrestrial Systems, focuses on the geosphere and its related soil and terrestrial systems, explaining their functions and offering management strategies. It is a valuable resource for environmental managers seeking basic knowledge and practical approaches to environmental management.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 642 pages
Publication date: 01 February 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, is a comprehensive guide that provides a thorough exploration of environmental issues, their origins, assessments, and solutions. With its extensive entries and a well-organized topical table of contents, readers can swiftly obtain answers to their inquiries about environmental problems and the corresponding management challenges. This six-volume set, a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, features insights from over 400 esteemed contributors, each a specialist in their respective field.

The expertise, evidence, methodologies, and models employed in the study of environmental management are presented in six standalone volumes, organized according to the major environmental systems.

Key Features:

The first handbook that showcases the essential processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management.

Addresses emerging and cutting-edge topics such as ecosystem services, resilience, sustainability, the food-energy-water nexus, socio-ecological systems, and more.

Provides a solid foundation in environmental systems, elucidating their functioning and offering strategies for effective management.

Includes the most pressing problems and solutions confronting environmental management today.

In this third volume, Managing Soils and Terrestrial Systems, the general concepts and processes of the geosphere, along with its associated soil and terrestrial systems, are introduced. It explains how these systems operate and provides guidance on optimal management practices. This book serves as an invaluable resource for acquiring fundamental knowledge about geosphere systems and encompasses significant challenges and solutions faced by environmental managers in their field.

Through practical demonstrations and comprehensive explanations, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, equips readers with the knowledge and tools necessary to address environmental challenges and promote sustainable practices.

Weight: 1383g
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367493080
Edition number: 2 New edition