Environmental Management in Practice: Vol 1 - Instruments for Environmental Management (Hardcover)

The three volumes in "Environmental Management in Practice" cover the four main aspects of environmental management, containing over sixty contributions from leading specialists in each field, and offering the first major source of contemporary international research and application within environmental management in practice. "Volume 1: Instruments for Environmental Management" focuses on a theoretical background to the physical, economic, legislative and communication instruments in common use today. "Volume 2: Compartments, Stressors and Sectors" deals with the problems what occur in the three "compartments" of the environment: air, water and soil. "Volume 3: Managing the Ecosystem" focuses on those ecosystems in which human intervention has predominated, such as cities and rural areas.