Overview
This informative dictionary contains over 8,500 entries on all aspects of the environment and conservation. International in scope, it embraces a broad spectrum of environmental areas including sustainable development, biodiversity, conservation, environmental ethics, philosophy, and history, resource management, sociology, and policy on the environment. In addition to its wide-ranging, concise definitions, it includes longer key entries on topics such as Antarctica, Gaia hypothesis, genetic engineering, the Kyoto Protocol, and the United Nations Conference on Environmental Development. The dictionary is uniquely comprehensive in that it addresses the social, legal, political, and economic aspects of the environment and conservation as well as the scientific terms. Coverage includes international treaties, movements, trusts and organizations, as well as biographies of key figures in environmental science. It also boasts wide coverage of terms relating to rural/community development and participation, an area with an increasingly key role in managing the environment and biodiversity. This places the subject of the environment firmly in a human as well as a scientific context.The dictionary is supplemented with an invaluable selection of 10 appendices, including international hazard assessment scales (including the Beaufort scale, the Richter scale, and the Fujita tornado scale), the geological timescale, and a list of useful websites for further study. Concise and wide-ranging, this is an essential work of reference for students and professionals, and anyone with an interest in the environment and conservation
Full Product Details
Author: Chris Park
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 19.60cm
Weight: 0.555kg
ISBN: 9780198609964
ISBN 10: 0198609965
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 24 January 2008
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
[Its] choices are sound and its decisions solid --New Scientist<br> A useful tool --TLS<br>
[Its] choices are sound and its decisions solid --New Scientist A useful tool --TLS [Its] choices are sound and its decisions solid --New Scientist A useful tool --TLS [Its] choices are sound and its decisions solid --New Scientist A useful tool --TLS
Author Information
Chris Park is a Professorial Fellow and Director of the Graduate School at Lancaster University.
