ABSTRACT
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about environmental problems and their corresponding management issues. This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights from more than 400 contributors, all experts in their field.
The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying environmental management are presented here in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems.
Features
- The first handbook that demonstrates the key processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management
- Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services, resilience, sustainability, food–energy–water nexus, socio-ecological systems, and more
- Provides an excellent basic knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them
- Includes the most important problems and solutions facing environmental management today
In this sixth volume, Managing Human and Social Systems, the reader is introduced to the general concepts and processes of all the environmental tools and their application to human and social systems. It explains how these systems function and provides strategies on how to best manage them. It serves as an excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on the human and social systems and includes important problems and solutions that environmental managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental management.
Section I: APC: Anthropogenic Chemicals and Activities 1. Food: Pesticide Contamination 2. Human Health: Consumer Concerns to Pesticides 3. Human Health: Endocrine Disruption 4. Human Health: Pesticides 5. Nanoparticles 6. Pharmaceuticals: Treatment Section II: COV: Comparative Overviews of Important Topics for Environmental Management 7. Buildings: Climate Change 8. Economic Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster 9. Food–Energy–Water Nexus 10. Geographic Information System (GIS): Land Use Planning 11. Industrial Networks 12. Land Restoration 13. Limits to Growth 14. Nuclear Energy: Economics 15. Remote Sensing and GIS Integration 16. Solid Waste: Municipal 17. Sustainability and Planning 18. Sustainable Development 19. Urban Agriculture Section III: CSS: Case Studies of Environmental Management 20. Cell Tower Procurement: Public School Placement 21. Community-Based Monitoring: Ngarenanyuki, Tanzania 22. Developing Countries: Pesticide Health Impacts 23. Insulation: Facilities Section IV: DIA: Diagnostic Tools: Monitoring, Ecological Modeling, Ecological Indicators, and Ecological Services 24. Environmental Accounting: A Tool for Supporting Environmental Management and Nature Conservation 25. Remote Sensing: Pollution 26. Solid Waste Management: Life Cycle Assessment 27. Sustainable Development: Ecological Footprint in Accounting 28. Environmental Legislation: Asia Section V: ELE: Focuses on the Use of Legislation or Policy to Address Environmental Problems 29. Environmental Policy 30. Environmental Policy: Innovations 31. Food Quality Protection Act 32. Food: Cosmetic Standards 33. Laws and Regulations: Food 34. Laws and Regulations: Pesticides 35. Laws and Regulations: Rotterdam Convention 36. Laws and Regulations: Soil 37. LEED-EB: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings 38. LEED-NC: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for New Construction 39. Nanomaterials: Regulation and Risk Assessment Section VI: ENT: Environmental Management Using Environmental Technologies 40. Industrial Waste: Soil Pollution and Remediation 41. Pest Management: Crop Diversity 42. Pest Management: Intercropping 43. Precision Agriculture: Water and Nutrient Management Section VII: PRO: Basic Environmental Processes 44. Green Processes and Projects: Systems Analysis 45. Green Products: Production
