An excellent, successful text, offering an innovative interdisciplinary approach to environment science. It is written by a team of leading experts from the internationally renowned School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, UK. The contributors have backgrounds in economics, geography, geology, hydrology, soil science, chemistry and biology. Environmental Science for Environmental Management demonstrates how environmental sciences can be made more effective in environmental management. It considers the relationship between science, politics and the ethics of environmental issues, as well as the bases for regional and local resource allocation.