Environmental Science - B - Oxford Bibliographies
Beavers as Agents of Landscape Change
Cherie J. Westbrook
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
Beavers as Agents of Landscape ChangeIntroductionBeavers ingeniously alter environments to suit their needs of predator protection and food access, cr...
Berry, Wendell
Kyle Dell
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Wendell Berry Introduction Wendell Berry (b. 1934) is a visionary, poet, author, and activist, born to a farming family in Henry County, Kentu...
Burroughs, John
James Warren
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
John Burroughs Introduction John Burroughs (b. 1837–d. 1921) was perhaps the best-known and most widely read American nature writer of the la...
Bush Encroachment
Timothy Gordon O'Connor, Nicola Stevens
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
Bush EncroachmentIntroductionSavannas are a significant biome within the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Australia, North America, South A...
Carbon Dynamics
Rebecca Abney, Chelsea Arnold, Michael Kaiser, Lixia Jin, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Carbon DynamicsIntroductionThe biogeochemical cycle of carbon (C) in the earth system controls fluxes, pools, and transformations associated with life...
Carbon Pricing and Emissions Trading
Michael Pollitt
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
Carbon Pricing and Emissions TradingIntroductionCarbon pricing is about the explicit pricing of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, of which carbon dioxid...
Carson, Rachel
Lisa Sideris, Amy M. Hay
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Rachel CarsonIntroductionNature writer and marine biologist Rachel Carson (b. 1907–d. 1964) shared her passion for the natural world through her writt...
Case Studies in Groundwater Contaminant Fate and Transport
Barbara Bekins
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Case Studies in Groundwater Contaminant Fate and TransportIntroductionA case study of groundwater contamination is a detailed study of a single site c...
Citizen Science
Christopher Kullenberg
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Citizen ScienceIntroductionDuring the past decade the number of citizen science projects around the world has surged. Today there are thousands of ini...
Climate Change and Conflict in Northern Africa
Janpeter Schilling, Lisa Krause
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Climate Change and Conflict in Northern AfricaIntroductionClimate change is one of the key challenges the world is facing in the 21st century. Concern...
Common Pool Resources
Tanya Heikkila, David P. Carter
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
Common Pool ResourcesIntroductionCommon pool resources (CPRs) are characterized as resources for which the exclusion of users is difficult (referred t...
Contaminant Dispersal in the Environment
Roberto Bargagli, Emilia Rota
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
Contaminant Dispersal in The EnvironmentIntroductionContaminants are foreign substances or impurities affecting the composition of air, water, soil, a...
Coral Reefs and Coral Bleaching
Janice Lough, Clive Wilkinson
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Coral Reefs and Coral BleachingIntroductionTropical coral reef ecosystems are hotspots of marine biodiversity. Globally, coral reefs occupy less than ...
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia
Philip M. Fearnside
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Deforestation in Brazilian AmazoniaIntroductionTropical deforestation represents one of the world’s great environmental problems, and Brazilian Amazon...
Deltas
Edward J. Anthony
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
DeltasIntroductionRiver deltas are subaqueous and subaerial coastal accumulations of river-derived sediments adjacent to, or close to, the source rive...
Desert Dust in the Atmosphere
Natalie M. Mahowald
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Desert Dust in the Atmosphere Introduction Desert dust represents one of the largest sources of aerosols to the atmosphere in terms of mass (s...
Determinism, Environmental
John L. Brooke
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2016-01-21
Environmental DeterminismIntroductionThis article provides an outline of the intellectual history of the concept of “environmental determinism,” and i...
Disturbance
E. A. Johnson
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
DisturbanceIntroductionDisturbance is often used, intuitively or colloquially, to imply some disastrous event that is disruptive or destructive. In na...
Ecohydrology
Valeriy Ivanov, Simone Fatichi, Edoardo Daly
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2019-08-28
EcohydrologyIntroductionEcohydrology is a cross-disciplinary field that emerged in the early 2000s as a result of recognition of the need to better un...
Ecological Integrity
Robert M. Hughes
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Ecological Integrity: Conceptual Foundations and ApplicationsIntroductionAs the term suggests, ecological integrity refers to the pristineness, undimi...
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