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Record Nr.

UNINA9910877407503321

Titolo

The encyclopedia of ecology & environmental management / / editor-in-chief, Peter Calow ; editorial board, D.A. Falk ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Science, 1998

ISBN

0-86542-838-7

9780632063416

0-632-06341-6

9780865428387

1-282-37159-2

9786612371592

1-4443-1325-8

1-4443-1324-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (833 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CalowPeter

FalkDonald A

Disciplina

363.7

363.7003

577

Soggetti

Environmental management

Ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

The Encyclopedia of Ecology & Environmental Management; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; How to Use the Encyclopedia; The Encyclopedia of Ecology & Environmental Management; color plates

Sommario/riassunto

The Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management addresses the core definitions and issues in pure and applied ecology. It is neither a short entry dictionary nor a long entry encyclopedia, but lies somewhere in between. The mixture of short entry definitions and long entry essays gives a comprehensive and up-to-date alphabetical guide to over 3000 topics, and allows any subject to be accessed to varying levels of detail; while the longer entries provide general reviews of subjects, the short definitions provide specific details on more



specialised areas. An important feature of