| Description |
xxxii, 512 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. The good scientist / Simon Watts and Lyndsay Halliwell -- 2. Sampling / Clinton Dyckhoff, Lyndsay Halliwell, Robin Haynes and Simon Watts -- 3. Use of statistics / Robin Haynes -- 4. Surveying / Keith Tovey -- 5. General laboratory equipment and techniques / Simon Watts and Peter Grebenik -- 6. Soils / Martin Haigh and Clinton Dyckhoff -- 7. Waters / Paul Jenkins, Tim Southern, Vic Truesdale and Anna Jeary -- 8. Ecological fieldwork methods / Margery Reid and Stewart Thompson -- 9. Social surveys / Lyndsay Halliwell and John R. Gold -- 10. Safety / John Pigott and Simon Watts -- Appendix 1. Mathematical constants and formulae -- Appendix 2. Statistical tables -- Appendix 3. Detailed field and chemical methods for soils |
| Summary |
As global concern about the environment grows, so too does the demand for accurate and precise information about it. A new generation of interdisciplinary scientists is being trained to meet this need. These scientists have a massive area of operation, utilising tools from a plethora of traditional sciences. Essential Environmental Science brings together in a quantitative and easily applicable manner a large selection of these tools, providing for the first time a useable and self-contained set of methodologies for undergraduates in the environmental sciences. The book is in ten chapters with three appendices. Essential Environmental Science is an invaluable resource for students in the laboratory or field, as well as providing a substance reference source to supplement course work and research |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Environmental sciences -- Experiments -- Methodology.
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Environmental sciences -- Experiments -- Technique.
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| Author |
Watts, Simon, 1958-
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Halliwell, Lyndsay, 1964-
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| LC no. |
96015719 |
| ISBN |
0415132460 (cloth) |
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0415132479 (paperback) |
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