3rd Edition

Environmental Management Introduction, Challenges, Opportunities

By Chris Barrow Copyright 2024
440 Pages 24 Color & 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

440 Pages 24 Color & 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

440 Pages 24 Color & 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This comprehensively updated third edition explores the nature and role of environmental management and offers an introduction to this rapidly expanding and changing field. It focuses on challenges and opportunities, and core concepts including sustainable development. The book is divided into five parts: Part I (Introduction to Environmental Management): four introductory chapters cover... Read more

Part I: Introduction to Environmental Management 

1. Introduction

2. Environmental Management: Character and Goals

3. Environmental Management and Science

4. Environmental Management Background 

Part II: Practice 

5. Environmental Management, Business and Law

6. Participants in Environmental Management

7. Environmental Management Approaches

8. Data, Standards, Indicators, Benchmarks, Goal Setting and Objectives, Monitoring, Surveillance, Models and Auditing 

9. Proactive Assessment, Prediction and Forecasting 

Part III: Global Challenges and Opportunities 

10. Resources: Character, Opportunities and Challenges

11. Population Increase, Global Warming, Pollution, Biodiversity Loss and Diseases

12. Human and Natural Causes  

Part IV: Responses to Global Challenges and Opportunities 

13. Mitigation, Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation

14. Technology and Social Developments  

Part V: The Future 

15. The Way Ahead 

Bibliography

Biography

Chris Barrow is Founding Editor of the journal Land Degradation & Development and continues to work on it. His research and publications focus on environmental management, land degradation, water and agriculture, tropical highland environments and smallholders. He has undertaken research in Malaysia, the sub-Antarctic, highland Morocco and Amazonian Brazil (floodlands). He lectured at Hull University (1975–77), joined Swansea University as a Lecturer in 1978, and retired from a Readership in late-2011. He worked as a palaeoecologist with the British Antarctic Survey (1972–75), gained a PhD from Birmingham University (1977) and a PGCE in 1978.