Environmental Science - Oxford Bibliographies
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...
Economic Valuation Methods for Non-market Goods or Services
Bengt Kriström, Per-Olov Johansson
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-11-30
Economic Valuation Methods for Non-Market Goods or ServicesIntroductionEconomic valuation methods for non-market goods and services comprise a range o...
Economics of International Environmental Agreements
Hans-Peter Weikard, Ekko van Ierland
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-03-30
Economics of International Environmental AgreementsIntroductionInternational Environmental Agreements (IEAs) respond to transnational environmental pr...
Economics of Water Management
Xueqin Zhu
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Economics of Water Management Introduction Water is a scarce natural resource. It is not only used as an input to economic activity such as ir...
Economics, Environmental
Roger Perman
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Environmental Economics Introduction Environmental economics uses the tools of economic analysis to address issues relating to the impacts of ...
Effects of Land Use
Darla K. Munroe
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
Effects Of Land UseIntroductionLand use refers to the management or modification of the earth’s land surface by human agents. Often it refers to the c...
Endocrine Disruptors
Laura N. Vandenberg, SriDurgaDevi Kolla
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2018-09-25
Endocrine DisruptorsIntroductionEndocrine disruptors, also referred to as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), are compounds that interfere with the...
Endocrinology, Environmental
Sean C. Lema
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Environmental EndocrinologyIntroductionEnvironmental endocrinology is the study of how the environmental conditions experienced by an organism affect ...
Engineering, Environmental
Mira S. Olson
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-03-30
Environmental Engineering Introduction Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to the design of env...
Environmental Assessment
Bram Noble
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Environmental AssessmentIntroductionEnvironmental assessment (EA) is the process of identifying the future consequences of a current or proposed actio...
Environmental Flows
Ryan Morrison, Erin Bray
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
Environmental FlowsIntroductionEnvironmental flows are commonly defined as the river-flow characteristics necessary to maintain the integrity of river...
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