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Titre : Environmental systems : an introductory text
Type de document : texte imprimé
Auteurs : White, I.D, Auteur ; Mottershead, D.N, Auteur ; Harrison, S.J, Auteur
Mention d'édition : 2 éd
Editeur : London : Chapman and Hall
Année de publication : 1992
Importance : X-616 p.
Présentation : ill
Format : 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-412-47140-7
Note générale : Bibliogr. p. [589]-602. Notes bibliogr.. Index
Langues : Anglais (eng)
Mots-clés : Physical geography
Natural history
Géographie physique
Sciences naturelles
Géomorphologie
Météorologie
Hydrologie
Écologie
Terre
Index. décimale : 551.4/.5
Résumé :
The concepts and terminology of the systems approach which now pervades thinking and teaching in the geographical and environmental sciences are dealt with in full, although unnecessary jargon is kept to a minimum. The approach is based on a nested hierarchy of systems in which man-environment interactions are dealt with in turn but with due respect for the functional connections within them, between them, and between man and the environment as a whole. Given that such an approach must be firmly based on sound scientific principles, essential scientific models, concepts and terms are explained, largely in boxed sections which are separated from the text in order to facilitate the use of the book by students with a variety of academic background. For the second edition, all chapters have been revised. In Part 2, there is a new chapter on the hydrosphere dealing with the effect of the oceans on the energetics and biochemistry of the planet. The biosphere and ecosphere chapters have been condensed into one, with more emphasis on the nature of human interference in biogeochemical cycles. There is a new chapter on Aeolian systems (desertification and the environmental problems of arid and semi-arid lands) and another coastal systems. There is more on landscape ecology and climatic change, including the effect of ozone holes.
Note de contenu : Au sommaire :
Part A. A systems framework : to have a picture
- Why a systems approach?
- Matter, force and energy
Part B. A systems model : a partial view
- Energy relationships
- The atmosphere...
Part C. Open-system model refined : environmental systems
- The atmosphere and the Earth's surface
- Secondary and tertiary circulation systems
- The catchment basin system
- The weathering system
- The slope system
- The fluvial system
- The glacial system
- The aeolian system
- The coastal system
- Spacial variations in denudation systems...
Part D. Systems and changes
- Change in environmental systems
- Change in physical systems
- Change in living systems
- Men's modification of environmental systems...

Environmental systems : an introductory text [texte imprimé] / White, I.D, Auteur ; Mottershead, D.N, Auteur ; Harrison, S.J, Auteur . - 2 éd . - London : Chapman and Hall, 1992 . - X-616 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-412-47140-7
Bibliogr. p. [589]-602. Notes bibliogr.. Index
Langues : Anglais (eng)
Mots-clés : Physical geography
Natural history
Géographie physique
Sciences naturelles
Géomorphologie
Météorologie
Hydrologie
Écologie
Terre
Index. décimale : 551.4/.5
Résumé :
The concepts and terminology of the systems approach which now pervades thinking and teaching in the geographical and environmental sciences are dealt with in full, although unnecessary jargon is kept to a minimum. The approach is based on a nested hierarchy of systems in which man-environment interactions are dealt with in turn but with due respect for the functional connections within them, between them, and between man and the environment as a whole. Given that such an approach must be firmly based on sound scientific principles, essential scientific models, concepts and terms are explained, largely in boxed sections which are separated from the text in order to facilitate the use of the book by students with a variety of academic background. For the second edition, all chapters have been revised. In Part 2, there is a new chapter on the hydrosphere dealing with the effect of the oceans on the energetics and biochemistry of the planet. The biosphere and ecosphere chapters have been condensed into one, with more emphasis on the nature of human interference in biogeochemical cycles. There is a new chapter on Aeolian systems (desertification and the environmental problems of arid and semi-arid lands) and another coastal systems. There is more on landscape ecology and climatic change, including the effect of ozone holes.
Note de contenu : Au sommaire :
Part A. A systems framework : to have a picture
- Why a systems approach?
- Matter, force and energy
Part B. A systems model : a partial view
- Energy relationships
- The atmosphere...
Part C. Open-system model refined : environmental systems
- The atmosphere and the Earth's surface
- Secondary and tertiary circulation systems
- The catchment basin system
- The weathering system
- The slope system
- The fluvial system
- The glacial system
- The aeolian system
- The coastal system
- Spacial variations in denudation systems...
Part D. Systems and changes
- Change in environmental systems
- Change in physical systems
- Change in living systems
- Men's modification of environmental systems...

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