Managing Water Resources and Hydrological Systems / Edition 2 available in Hardcover, eBook
Managing Water Resources and Hydrological Systems / Edition 2
- ISBN-10:
- 1138342661
- ISBN-13:
- 9781138342668
- Pub. Date:
- 07/30/2020
- Publisher:
- CRC Press
- ISBN-10:
- 1138342661
- ISBN-13:
- 9781138342668
- Pub. Date:
- 07/30/2020
- Publisher:
- CRC Press
Managing Water Resources and Hydrological Systems / Edition 2
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The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying environmental management are presented here in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems.
Features
- The first handbook that demonstrates the key processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management
- Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services, resilience, sustainability, food–energy–water nexus, socio-ecological systems, and more
- Provides an excellent basic knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them
- Includes the most important problems and solutions facing environmental management today
In this fourth volume, Managing Water Resources and Hydrological Systems, the reader is introduced to the general concepts and processes of the hydrosphere with its water resources and hydrological systems. This volume serves as an excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on the hydrosphere systems and includes important problems and solutions that environmental managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental management.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781138342668 |
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Publisher: | CRC Press |
Publication date: | 07/30/2020 |
Series: | Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, Six-Volume Set |
Edition description: | 2nd ed. |
Pages: | 758 |
Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Sven E. Jørgensen (1934–2016) was a Professor of Environmental Chemistry at Copenhagen University. He earned a doctorate of engineering in environmental technology and a doctorate of science in ecological modeling. He was an honorable doctor of science at Coimbra University (Portugal) and at Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). He was Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Modelling from the journal’s inception in 1975 until 2009. He was Editor-in-Chief for the Encyclopedia of Environmental Management (2013) and Encyclopedia of Ecology (2008). In 2004, Dr. Jorgensen was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize and the Prigogine Medal. He was awarded the Einstein Professorship by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. In 2007, he received the Pascal Medal and was elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences. He published over 350 papers and has edited or written over 70 books. Dr. Jorgensen gave popular and well-received lectures and courses in ecological modeling, ecosystem theory, and ecological engineering worldwide.