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Environmental Science

出版	Saunders College Pub., 1988
主題	Nature / Environmental Conservation & ProtectionScience / Environmental ScienceSocial Science / Human Geography
ISBN	00301665789780030166570
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=27YhAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"Our major strategy in writing a principles-oriented text is to introduce several major themes in the first two chapters and then apply them throughout the book. Some of these themes include the Tragedy of the Commons, the interplay between social and technical solutions, the role played by the legal system in environmental managment, cost/benefit analysis, risk assessment, and natural constraints such as those imposed by the law of conservation of matter and the laws of thermodynamics. Following the development of these fundamental concepts, the book introduces various types of environmental problems and discusses different possible solutions based on the central themes. The principles are illuminated by a limited number of significant examples that are discussed in some depth. We believe that these examples are suffucuently interesting to 'fix' the principles in the students' minds and to motivate them to pursue studies of other topics of regional or personal interest. We have always attempted to be realistic in discussing the true complexity of the world in which we live without oversimplifying or providing simplistic solutions that really don't work." - Preface.