A Guide to Understanding Fundamental Principles of Environmen... - 9781789060980

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A Guide to Understanding Fundamental Principles of Environmental ManagementIt Ain't Magic: Everything Goes Somewhere\nAuthor(s): Andrew Manale, Skip Hyberg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: IWA Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: IWA Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781789060980, 978-1789060980\nSynopsis\nIn this human-dominated Anthropocene Epoch, how does one protect and manage scarce environmental resources? This book uses plain language to introduce the non-expert to the fundamentals of environmental management, without requiring them to have a solid grounding in the basic sciences. The authors build upon the readers natural understanding of scientific principles to learn how to follow the consequences of change through natural systems and to ask better questions about ones environment. Case studies are provided, drawn from temperate ecosystems and human-altered landscapes. Two sets of stories are crafted to explain scientific concepts and introduce analytical approaches, identifying where a.