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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 second volume, Managing Biological and Ecological Systems, the reader is introduced to the general concepts and processes of the biosphere and all its systems. This volume 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 biosphere and ecological 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.

Table of Contents:
Section I: APC: Anthropogenic Chemicals: The Articles Cover Human-Manufactured Chemicals and Activities 1. Animals: Sterility from Pesticides 2. Bacillus thuringiensis: Transgenic Crops 3. Biopesticides 4. Birds: Chemical Control 5. Birds: Pesticide Use Impacts 6. Insect Growth Regulators Section II: COV: Indicates That the Articles Give Comparative Overviews of Important Topics for Environmental Management 7. Biodiversity and Sustainability 8. Biofertilizers 9. Ecosystems: Large-Scale Restoration Governance 10. Ecosystems: Planning and Trade-offs 11. Natural Enemies: Conservation 12. Pests: Landscape Patterns Section III: CSS: The Articles Gives a Case Study of a Particular Environmental Management Example 13. Biological Control of Vertebrates: Myxoma Virus and Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus as Biological Controls for Rabbits 14. Cabbage Disease Ecology and Management 15. Natural Enemies and Biocontrol: Artificial Diets Section IV: DIA: Means That the Articles Are about Diagnostic Tools: Monitoring, Ecological Modeling, Ecological Indicators, and Ecological Services 16. Animals: Toxicological Evaluation 17. Bioindicators for Sustainable Agroecosystems 18. Ecological Indicators: Eco-Exergy to Emergy Flow 19. Ecological Indicators: Ecosystem Health 20. Sustainable Fisheries: Models and Management Section V: ENT: Addresses Environmental Management Using Environmental Technologies 21. Bioremediation: Contaminated Soil Restoration 22. Biotechnology: Pest Management 23. Plant Pathogens (Fungi): Biological Control 24. Plant Pathogens (Viruses): Biological Control 25. Stored-Product Pests: Biological Control 26. Weeds (Insects and Mites): Biological Control Section VI: NEC: Natural Elements and Chemicals: The Articles Cover Basic Elements and Chemicals Found in Nature 27. Antagonistic Plants 28. Arthropod Host-Plant Resistant Crops 29. Biomass 30. Nematodes: Biological Control Section VII: PRO: The Articles Cover Basic Environmental Processes 31. Agroforestry: Water Use Efficiency 32. Bacterial Pest Control 33. Bioaccumulation 34. Biodegradation 35. Biological Control of Vertebrates 36. Biological Controls 37. Biological Factors Impeding Recovery of Predatory Fish Populations 38. Bioremediation 39. Composting 40. Insects and Mites: Biological Control 41. Invasion Biology


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781000062069
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1000062066
  • Publisher Date: 29 Jul 2020
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Series Title: Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, Six-Volume Set


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