A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation - Hardcover

Park, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198609957 ISBN 13: 9780198609957

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

As the popularity of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth attests, the environment has become an increasingly important issue in the minds of most people. In A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation, Chris Park offers a comprehensive reference work for everyone concerned about the future of our planet.
This comprehensive dictionary contains over 8,500 informative entries on all aspects of the environment and conservation, embracing a broad spectrum of concerns, including sustainable development, biodiversity, environmental ethics, philosophy and history, resource management, sociology, and environmental policy. In addition to its wide-ranging, concise definitions, the Dictionary includes thirty highlighted entries on topics such as Antarctica, Gaia hypothesis, Chernobyl, genetic engineering, the Kyoto Protocol, ozone depletion, and the United Nations Conference on Environmental Development. It is important to note that, unlike other books in this area, the dictionary addresses not only the scientific side of conservation and the environment, but also social, legal, political and economic aspects. Readers will find clear, concise coverage of international treaties, movements, trusts and organizations, as well as biographies of key figures in environmental science. The volume also boasts wide coverage of terms relating to rural/community development and participation, an area that plays an increasingly crucial role in managing the environment and biodiversity. The dictionary concludes with a valuable selection of 10 appendices, including international hazard assessment scales such as the Beaufort scale, the Richter scale, Torino asteroid and comet impact hazard scale, and the Fujita tornado scale, plus the geologic timescale and an appendix of useful websites for further study.
Concise and wide-ranging, this is an essential work of reference for students and professionals, and anyone with an interest in the environment and conservation.

About this title

About the Author:

Chris Park is a Professorial Fellow and Director of the Graduate School at Lancaster University. An authority on environmentalism, he has written more than 50 journal articles and 10 books, including The Environment: Principles and Applications.

Review:

"Comprehensive but accessible....provides clear, concise definitions....Recommended."--CHOICE

"Carefully crafted....a significant undertaking. The terms and names are defined in clear and accessible prose....lovingly and competently done."--American Reference Books Annual

"Comprehensive but accessible....provides clear, concise definitions....Recommended."--CHOICE

"A significant undertaking. The terms and names are defined in clear and accessible prose....lovingly and competently done."--American Reference Books Annual

"This dictionary is a remarkably interdisciplinary work to have been created by a single individual. It is an excellent selection for academic libraries, consulting firms, nonprofits, government agencies, personal collections, and the ready-reference shelf in a university environmetal studies department office." -- Environment, Vol. 50, No. 4

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0198609957
• ISBN 13: 9780198609957
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 528