Table of Contents
Preface
About the Authors
Chapter 1: A trip through time on planet Earth
Malcolm Cresser & Paul Ayris
Chapter 2: The global cycling and functions of water
Malcolm Cresser & Paul Ayris
Chapter 3: The origins of the atmosphere
Nicola Carslaw
Chapter 4: The natural carbon cycle
Malcolm Cresser
Chapter 5: The cycling of nitrogen and selected other elements
Malcolm Cresser
Chapter 6: Ecology and biodiversity on Earth
Lesley Batty
Chapter 7: The evolution and functions of soils
Malcolm Cresser
Chapter 8: Climate change
Nicola Carslaw
Chapter 9: Organic matter in rivers
Malcolm Cresser
Chapter 10: James Lovelock, Gaia, and beyond
Malcolm Cresser
Chapter 11: Man-made chemicals and the environment
Alistair Boxall
Chapter 12: The production of food & its environmental impacts
Malcolm Cresser & Craig Adams
Chapter 13: Wildlife disease: An emerging problem
Piran White, Monika Boehm & Michael Hutchings
Chapter 14: The use and abuse of water cycling
Malcolm Cresser & Cumhur Aydinalp
Chapter 15: Exploiting the sea for fish
Julie Hawkins & Callum Roberts
Chapter 16: Atmospheric pollution: Deposition and impacts
Malcolm Cresser
Chapter 17: How do we quantify biogeochemical cycles?
Malcolm Cresser
Chapter 18: Renewable and non-renewable energy
Craig Adams
Chapter 19: Soil pollution and abuse
Malcolm Cresser, Sophie Green & Clare Wilson
Chapter 20: Risk assessment and remediation of environmental contamination
Ken Killham & Graeme Paton
Chapter 21: Pollution swapping
Keith Goulding
Chapter 22: The trouble with man is.....or what have you damaged today?
Elena Dawkins & Anne Owen
Chapter 23: The nature and merits of green chemistry
Andrew Hunt and James Clark
Chapter 24: Doing environmental science at the right scale
Dave Raffaelli
Chapter 25: Biodiversity: Trends, significance, conservation and management
Dave Raffaelli
