Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Preface -- Part I: Introduction to environmental management -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Aims and background -- Key terms and concepts -- Definition and scope of EM -- The evolution of EM -- Sustainable development (SD) -- EM problems and opportunities -- Encouraging EM -- Summary -- Further reading -- EM books -- SD books -- EM journals -- SD journals -- www sources -- Professional bodies -- EM courses -- Chapter 2: Environmental management: Character and goals -- Character and goals of EM -- Concept of limits to development -- Polluter-pays principle -- Precautionary principle -- EM challenges -- Need to be adaptable and resilient and to seek to reduce human vulnerability -- EM ethics and institutions -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Chapter 3: Environmental management and science -- Environment and environmental science -- Structure and function of the environment -- Trophic level and organic productivity -- The ecosystem -- Biosphere cyclic processes -- How stable and resilient are environments? -- Stability -- Resilience -- Threatening environmental events -- Biodiversity -- Environmental limits and resources -- Environmental limits -- Resources -- The Gaia hypothesis -- Environmental crisis -- Environmental and ecosystems modelling, the ecosystem concept, environmental systems and ecosystem management -- Applying the ecosystem concept to tourism, conservation and heritage management -- Applying the ecosystem concept to urban and periurban management -- Applying the ecosystem concept to conservation management -- Environmental systems and ecosystem planning and management - biogeophysical units -- Ecozones, ecoregions and ecodistricts. , Coastal zone and marine ecosystem planning and management -- River basin planning and management -- Watershed/catchment planning and management -- Bioregionalism -- Agroecosystem analysis and management -- Telecoupling -- Landscape ecology approach -- Ekistics -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Chapter 4: Environmental management background -- Environmental concern 1750 to 1960 -- Environmental concern 1960 to 1980 -- Environmental concern 1980 to the present -- Environmentalism, ecologism and the Green Movement -- Environmentalism -- Ecologism -- Green spirituality -- The Green Movement -- Dark- deep- light- and bright-greens -- Social sciences and environmentalism -- A late twentieth-century paradigm shift? -- Ethics for EM -- Women and the environment -- Social aspects of resource use -- The greening of economics -- Human capital / social capital / cultural capital / built capital -- Global environmental problems and economics -- Environmental accounts -- Estimating the value of the environment and natural resources -- Cost-benefit analysis -- BATNEEC and BPEO -- Shadow prices -- Paying for and encouraging EM -- Fair trade -- Contract farming -- Green taxes -- Pigouvian taxes -- Carbon emissions taxes and incentives -- Tradable energy quotas -- Energy use taxes -- REDD and REDD+ -- Green aid -- Natural capital and ecosystem services -- Natural capital -- Ecosystem services -- Debt, structural adjustment and the environment -- Debt-for-nature/environment swaps -- Trade and EM -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Part II: Practice -- Chapter 5: Environmental management, business and law -- The US National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) - a 1970 environmental Magna Carta? -- EM and business/organisations -- Corporate visions of stewardship - a paradigm shift to EM ethics? -- Corporate social responsibility (CSR). , The triple bottom line -- Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) -- Approaches adopted to promote EM in business/organisations -- Industrial ecology -- Ecological engineering -- Green marketing -- Green consumerism and consumer protection bodies -- Eco-labelling -- Total quality management and environment -- EM systems -- Green and sustainable supply chain management -- Life-cycle assessment -- Covenants -- Small and medium enterprises/businesses and the environment -- Greenwashing -- EM and business: the current situation -- EM and law -- European law and EM -- International law and EM -- International law and sovereignty issues -- Conflict management and EM -- Indigenous peoples and environmental law -- International conferences and agreements -- Alternative dispute resolution -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Chapter 6: Participants in environmental management -- Learning from past peoples -- Stakeholders -- Stakeholder analysis and stakeholder management -- Facilitators -- Citizens -- Indigenous groups -- Women -- Individuals and groups seeking change -- Individuals and groups with little power -- Displaced people -- Public -- Participatory EM -- Aarhus Convention -- Transition Towns Movement -- Funding and research bodies -- Communications -- Controllers -- Traditions and spirituality -- Accreditation -- International bodies and agreements -- NGOs and EM -- Millennium and ongoing development goals -- Unions -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Chapter 7: Environmental management approaches -- EM focus and stance -- Political ecology focus and stance -- Political economy focus and stance -- Human ecology focus and stance -- Participatory focus and stance -- Participatory appraisal -- Local, community, regional and sectoral EM -- Adaptive EM -- Tools, expert systems and decision support for EM -- Tools for EM. , Expert systems -- Decision support for EM -- Systems and network approaches for EM -- Ecosystem approaches -- Ecosystem services -- Bioregional approaches -- Agroecosystem approaches -- Urban ecosystem approaches -- SMART cities or ecosystem cities approaches -- River basin ecosystem approaches -- Watershed and catchment systems approaches -- Socio-economic and socio-economic-environmental systems -- Environmental management systems -- The state and EM -- Non-Western EM -- China -- India -- Southeast Asia -- West Asia, Middle East and Northern Africa -- Africa -- South and Central America and the Caribbean -- Transboundary and global EM -- Integrated EM -- Strategic EM -- Strategic environmental assessment -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Chapter 8: Data, standards, indicators, benchmarks, goal setting and objectives, monitoring, surveillance, models and auditing -- Tools, data, data analysis, statistics and interpretation -- Fuzzy data -- Big data -- Open data -- Data assessment/analysis -- Indicators, standards and benchmarks -- Indicators -- SD indicators -- Standards -- Benchmarks -- Setting goals and objectives and getting an overall view -- Setting goals -- Scoping -- Pilot study -- Life-cycle assessment -- Participatory assessment -- Monitoring -- Ultimate environmental threshold assessment -- Remote sensing, GIS and GPS -- Remote sensing -- GIS -- GPS -- Business and project evaluation monitoring tools -- Surveillance -- Modelling -- Environmental auditing/assessment, eco-auditing, environmental accounting, SD auditing and environmental compliance auditing -- Environmental auditing -- Eco-auditing -- Environmental accounting -- SD assessment/audit and state of the environment accounts -- Environmental assessment/appraisal -- Supply chain auditing -- Environmental compliance auditing -- Eco-footprint and carbon footprint. , Integrated environmental assessment -- Cumulative impact assessment -- Summary -- Further reading -- Books -- Journals -- www sources -- Chapter 9: Proactive assessment, prediction and forecasting -- Futures studies -- Predicting future scenarios -- Forecasting -- Futures modelling and future scenario prediction -- Hazard assessment and risk assessment -- Environmental impact assessment -- Dealing with indirect and cumulative impacts -- Social impact assessment -- Other tools for assessing the potential for development and impacts of development -- Ecological impact assessment -- Habitat evaluation -- Land-use planning -- Land capability classification, evaluation and appraisal -- Land suitability assessment -- The universal soil loss equation and revised universal soil loss equations -- Agroecosystem zones -- Farming systems research -- Participatory assessment approaches -- Livelihoods assessment -- Vulnerability studies -- Technology assessment -- Health risk assessment and health impact assessment -- Computers and expert systems -- Adaptive environmental assessment and management -- Integrated, comprehensive and regional impact assessment, integrated and strategic EM -- Integrated and comprehensive impact assessment -- Integrated regional environmental assessment -- Strategic environmental assessment -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Part III: Global challenges and opportunities -- Chapter 10: Resources: Character, opportunities and challenges -- Resources characteristics and management issues -- Water -- Floods -- Drought and reduced river flows -- Water resources management -- Developing rivers -- Small reservoirs and tanks -- Barrages -- Large dams -- Interbasin transfers -- Shared rivers -- Lakes and ponds -- Irrigation, runoff collection and rain-fed agriculture -- Air -- Land and soil -- Wetlands -- Energy. , Food and commodities.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of journals -- 1 Environmental science on the move -- 2 The sustainability debate -- 3 Environmental politics and policy processes -- 4 Environmental and ecological economics -- 5 Biodiversity and ethics -- 6 Population, adaptation and resilience -- 7 Climate change -- 8 Managing the oceans -- 9 Coastal processes and management -- 10 GIS and environmental management -- 11 Soil erosion and land degradation -- 12 River processes and management -- 13 Groundwater pollution and protection -- 14 Marine and estuarine pollution -- 15 Urban air pollution and public health -- 16 Preventing disease -- 17 Environmental risk management -- 18 Waste management -- 19 Managing the global commons -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editor's Note -- Board of Advisers -- Contributors -- Alphabetical List of Entries -- Thematic List -- Reader's Guide to the History of Science -- A -- Académie des Sciences -- Accademia dei Lincei -- Accademia del Cimento -- Accountability -- Accountancy -- Acoustics -- Acupuncture -- Adler, Alfred -- Aether -- Affinity -- Africa: south of the Sahara -- Africa: health and healing -- Age of the Earth -- Agrícola, Georgius -- Agriculture -- AIDS -- Alchemy -- Algebra -- Alienation -- Almanacs -- Anatomy -- Anthropology -- Anthropometry -- Anti-Vivisection -- Arabic Science -- Archaeology -- Archimedes -- Aristotle -- Arithmetic -- Artificial Intelligence -- Astrolabes -- Astrology -- Astronomical Instruments -- Astronomy: general works -- Astronomy: non-European -- Astrophysics -- Asylums -- Atomic Theory -- Atomic Weapons -- Atomism -- Australia and New Zealand -- Automobiles -- Avogadro, Amedeo -- Axiomatics -- B -- Bacon, Francis -- Bacteriology -- Baer, Karl Ernst von -- Baeyer, Adolf von -- Banks, Joseph -- Bateson, Gregory -- Bauer, Georg -- Behring, Emil von -- Bernard, Claude -- Berthollet, Claude-Louis, Comte de -- Berzelius, Jöns Jacob -- Bichat, Marie François Xavier -- Big Bang Theory -- Big Science -- Biochemistry -- Biometrics, Statistical Biology, and Mathematical Statistics -- Biotechnology -- Birth Control -- Blowpipe -- Boas, Franz -- The Body -- Boerhaave, Herman -- Bohr, Niels -- Boltzmann, Ludwig Eduard -- Botanical and Zoological Gardens -- Botanical Gardens -- Zoological Gardens -- Botany: general works -- Botany: Britain -- Boyle, Robert -- Brahe, Tycho -- Brazil -- British Association for the Advancement of Science -- Buckland, William -- Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclere, Comte de -- C -- Calculating Devices -- Canada -- Cancer -- Cantor, Georg. , Capitalism and Science -- Cardiology -- Cartesianism -- Cartography -- CERN -- Chaos Theory -- Charcot, Jean-Martin -- Chemical Analysis -- Chemical Revolution -- Chemistry -- China: general works -- China: agriculture -- China: astronomy and mathematics -- China: medicine -- China: natural history -- Clinical Science -- Clinical Trials -- Clocks -- Colloid Chemistry -- Colonialism and Science -- Complementary Medicine -- Computing -- Comte, Auguste -- Continental Drift -- Copernicanism -- Copernicus, Nicolaus -- Cosmology -- Court Society -- Cryogenics -- Curie, Marie -- Cuvier, Georges -- D -- Darwin, Charles -- Darwinism -- Darwinism in Germany -- Davy, Humphry -- Dee, John -- Degeneration -- Denmark -- Dentistry -- Descartes, René -- Dialectical Materialism -- Discipline -- Discovery -- DNA -- Doctor-Patient Relationship -- Drugs -- Duhem, Pierre Maurice Marie -- Durkheim, Émile -- Dyestuffs -- E -- École Polytechnique -- Ecology -- Edison, Thomas Alva -- Education -- Egypt and Mesopotamia -- Ehrlich, Paul -- Einstein, Albert -- Electrical Engineering -- Electrical Instruments -- Electricity -- Electromagnetism -- Embryology -- Encyclopedias -- Endocrinology -- Energy -- Engineering Schools -- Engines: steam -- Engines: turbo -- Enlightenment -- Environmental Sciences -- Epidemics -- Epidemiology -- Error Theory -- Ethnomathematics -- Ethnoscience -- Ethology and Animal Behaviour -- Euclid -- Eugenics -- Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan -- Evolution -- Evolutionary Synthesis -- Exhibitions -- Expeditions -- Experimental Physiology -- Experiments -- F -- Fact -- Faraday, Michael -- Fermat, Pierre -- Fermi, Enrico -- Fevers -- Feynman, Richard -- Fischer, Emil -- Fleming, Alexander -- Florey, Howard Walter -- Forensic Sciences -- Foucault, Michel -- France: scientific and technical education -- Franklin, Benjamin -- Fraunhofer, Joseph von. , Freud, Sigmund -- Function -- Functionalism and Structuralism: biological sciences -- G -- Galen -- Galilean School -- Galilei, Galileo -- Galton, Francis -- Galvani, Luigi -- Galvanic Battery -- Gauss, Carl Friedrich -- Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis -- Gender: general works -- Gender and Identity -- Gender and Sex -- Genetic Engineering -- Genetics: general works -- Genetics: post-DNA -- Genius -- Geography of the Sciences -- Geology -- Geometry -- Germanophone Areas -- Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte -- Gilbert, William -- Global Organizations -- Gödel, Kurt -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von -- Graphical Method -- Greece: general works -- Greece: medicine -- Group Theory -- Gynaecology -- H -- Haeckel, Ernst -- Hahn, Otto -- Hale, George Ellery -- Halley, Edmond -- Harvey, William -- Hayek, Friedrich August von -- Health, Mortality, and Social Class -- Heat -- Heisenberg, Werner -- Helmholtz, Hermann von -- Herbalism -- Heredity -- Hermeticism -- Herschel, William -- Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf -- Hilbert, David -- Hippocrates -- Histology -- History of Science: general works -- Hodgkin, Dorothy -- Holistic Medicine -- Home Economics -- Homoeopathy -- Hooker, Joseph Dalton -- Horticulture -- Hospitals -- Human Genome Project -- Human Sciences -- Humanism -- Humboldt, Alexander von -- Hungary -- Hunter, John -- Hutton, James -- Huxley, Thomas -- Huygens, Christiaan -- Hysteria -- I -- Ideology -- Immunology -- India: general works -- India: medicine -- Indigenous Knowledge Systems -- Industrial Chemistry -- Information -- Instrument as Embodied Theory -- Instrument Makers -- Internalism versus Externalism -- International Science -- J -- Japan: general works -- Japan: medicine -- Japan: technology -- Jesuits -- Journals -- Jung, Carl Gustav -- K -- Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften -- Kant, Immanuel -- Kepler, Johannes. , Keynes, John Maynard -- Klein, Melanie -- Knowledge and Power -- Koch, Robert -- L -- Latin America -- Laue, Max von -- Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent -- Lawrence, Ernest Orlando -- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Lévi-Strauss, Claude -- Liebig, Justus von -- Linguistics -- Linné, Carl von -- Linnaeus, Carl -- Lister, Joseph -- Literature and Science -- Lorenz, Konrad -- Lyell, Charles -- Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich -- M -- Mach, Ernst -- Madness -- Magnetism -- Malaria -- Malthus, Thomas -- Malthusianism -- Management Sciences -- Marey, Etienne-Jules -- Marshall, Alfred -- Martineau, Harriet -- Marx, Karl -- Marxism and Science -- Materials Science -- Mathematical Instruments -- Mathematical Modernity -- Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de -- Maxwell, James Clerk -- Measurement -- Mechanization -- Medical Ethics -- Medical Instruments -- Medical Specialization -- Medicine and Law -- Medicine, Disease, and Health -- Medieval Science and Medicine -- Meitner, Lise -- Mendel, Gregor -- Mendeleev, Dmitrii Ivanovich -- Mersenne, Marin -- Merton Thesis -- Mesmerism -- Metallurgy -- Metaphor -- Meteorological Instruments -- Meteorology -- Metrology -- Michelson, Albert A. -- Microscopes -- Midwifery -- Mill, John Stuart -- Millikan, Robert Andrews -- Mills and Waterwheels -- The Mind -- Molecular Biology -- Monge, Gaspard -- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle -- Museums -- Music and Science: antiquity to 1700 -- Music and Science: since 1700 -- N -- Napier, John -- National Styles of Reasoning -- Natural Law -- Natural Selection -- Nature -- Navigational Instruments -- Nernst, Walther -- Netherlands: technology -- Neumann, Salomon -- Neurosciences -- Newton, Isaac -- Newtonianism -- Nobel Institution -- Nuclear Physics -- Number Theory -- Nursing -- Nutrition -- O -- Objectivity -- Observation -- Obstetrics and Midwifery -- Occult Sciences. , Oceanography -- Oppenheimer, J. Robert -- Optics -- Organic Chemistry -- Orientalism -- Ornithology -- Ørsted, Hans Christian -- Ostwald, Wilhelm -- P -- Pain -- Paleontology -- Paracelsus -- Paradigm -- Particle Physics -- Pasteur, Louis -- Pathology -- Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich -- Pearson, Karl -- Performance -- Pharmacology -- Pharmacy -- Philosophy of Science -- Photography -- Phrenology -- Physical Chemistry -- Physical and Human Geography -- Physics: 20th century -- Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt -- Physiology: France -- Physiology: Germany -- Piaget, Jean -- Plague -- Planck, Max -- Plastic Surgery -- Plastics and Polymers -- Plato -- Poincaré, Jules Henri -- Polar Science -- Political Economy -- Popularization -- Positivism -- Practice -- Prehistory: archaeology and anthropology -- Priestley, Joseph -- Printing -- Probability -- Professionalization -- Progress -- Psychiatry -- Psychoanalysis: conceptual -- Psychoanalysis: gender -- Psychoanalysis: institutional -- Psychology -- Psychophysics -- Public and the Private -- Public Health -- Pythagoras 6th century BC -- Q -- Quackery -- Quantification -- Quantum Mechanics -- Quantum Theory -- Quételet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques -- R -- Race -- Radioactivity -- Radiology -- Raman, Chandrasekhara Venkata -- Ramón y Cajal, Santiago -- Rationality -- Rational Mechanics -- Reading Culture and Science -- Relativity -- Religion and Science: general works -- Religion and Science: Islam -- Religion and Science: Medieval -- Religion and Science: Renaissance -- Representation -- Reproductive Medicine -- Research and Development -- Respiration -- Rhetoric -- Rittenhouse, David -- Rockefeller Foundation -- Romanticism -- Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad -- Rowland, Henry Augustus -- Royal Institution -- Royal Society of London -- Russia -- Russian Academy of Sciences -- Rutherford, Ernest -- S. , Scheele, Carl Wilhelm.