Langbeschreibung
Environmental Systems Science: Theory and Practical Applications looks at pollution and environmental quality from a systems perspective. Credible human and ecological risk estimation and prediction methods are described, including life cycle assessment, feasibility studies, pollution control decision tools, and approaches to determine adverse outcome pathways, fate and transport, sampling and analysis, and cost-effectiveness. The book brings translational science to environmental quality, applying groundbreaking methodologies like informatics, data mining, and applications of secondary data systems. Multiple human and ecological variables are introduced and integrated to support calculations that aid environmental and public health decision making.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Systems Science2. The Importance of Scale3. Transitional and Translational Sciences4. Dynamics5. Tools - critical path analysis, root cause analysis, multi-criteria decision analysis, PERT, GANTT6. Equilibrium7. Clean Air Economics8. Cases9. Sustainability vs Risk Analysis10. Land Use Planning11. Future Opportunities and Problems