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Acid Deposition
Eve-Lyn S. Hinckley
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Acid Deposition Introduction Acid deposition is one of the major environmental problems of the modern world. This broad term refers to a mix o...
Agricultural Land Abandonment
Alexander V. Prishchepov
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2020-09-24
Agricultural Land AbandonmentIntroductionAgricultural land abandonment is increasingly a global land-cover change phenomenon that has strong implicati...
Agrochemical Pollutants
Kathleen Bowmer
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
Agrochemical PollutantsIntroductionPesticides and fertilizers are widely used in agriculture. They are essential to the production of food and fiber f...
Agroforestry Systems
Maren Oelbermann
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Agroforestry SystemsIntroductionAgroforestry systems are land management practices in which trees and shrubs are produced on the same land area as agr...
Agroforestry: The North American Perspective
Sarah T. Lovell, Harold E. "Gene" Garrett
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2021-01-12
Agroforestry: The North American PerspectiveIntroductionAgroforestry has a long, rich history that is rooted in activities practiced by indigenous com...
Antarctica
Peter Convey
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
AntarcticaIntroductionAntarctica originally formed part of the southern supercontinent, Gondwana, and its fossil record shows that the continent hoste...
Anthropocene
Andrew Goudie
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
AnthropoceneIntroductionThe term “Anthropocene” has Greek roots (anthropo meaning “human” and –cene meaning “new”). It is a new term for an older conc...
Applied Fluvial Ecohydraulic
Gregory B. Pasternack
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
Applied Fluvial EcohydraulicsIntroductionAll over the world rivers and the fluvial ecosystem are systemically collapsing in response to cumulative his...
Arid Environments
David S.G. Thomas
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Arid Environments Introduction Arid environments cover almost half the earth’s land surface and embrace a considerable range of environmental ...
Arsenic Contamination in South and Southeast Asia
John C. Ayers, Steven Goodbred, Matthew Dietrich
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Arsenic Contamination in South and Southeast AsiaIntroductionRural populations in South and Southeast Asia often rely on groundwater for drinking and ...
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
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Chelsea Arnold, Lixia Jin, Michael Kaiser, Rebecca Lever
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...
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...
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...
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