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Essential Environmental Science: Methods and Techniques
Author(s): Simon Watts
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 7 Nov. 1996
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 548 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415132460
- ISBN-13: 9780415132466
Book Description
Essential Environmental Science brings together within a single volume the vast range of techniques, methods and basic tools necessary for the study of the environment.
Environmental science has a massive area of operation, utilising the tools from a plethora of traditional sciences and social sciences. This practical manual draws on contributions from leading experts in each field, to present both general and specific environmental methods and techniques within a unique interdisciplinary environmental perspective.
Essential Environmental Science offers an invaluable reference source for environmental study in both the laboratory and in the field.
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
As global concern about the environment grows, so too does the demand for accurate and precise information about it. A new generation of interdisciplinary scientists is being trained to meet this need. These scientists have a massive area of operation, utilising tools from a plethora of traditional sciences. Essential Environmental Science brings together in a quantitative and easily applicable manner a large selection of these tools, providing for the first time a useable and self-contained set of methodologies for undergraduates in the environmental sciences. The book is in ten chapters with three appendices. Essential Environmental Science is an invaluable resource for students in the laboratory or field, as well as providing a substance reference source to supplement course work and research.
About the Author
Simon Watts
