Edited by
P.C. Young, Professor of Environmental Systems and Director, Centre for Research on Environmental Systems and Statistics, Institute of Environmental & Biological Sciences, University of Lancaster, UK
Description
The
Concise Encyclopedia of Environmental Systems provides a concise overview of the current state of the art in the study of
environmental systems. Contains specially commissioned articles and updated and revised articles from the acclaimed
Systems &
Control Encyclopedia. The subjects covered include: agricultural systems; atmospheric processes and air quality; ecosystems; environmental
chemistry; geology, soil processes and geophysics; hydrology, fluid dynamics and water quality; marine processes; meteorology; and climatology.
In addition, many of the articles cover the methodological procedures used in environmental systems analysis, with contributions on automatic
control and management; computers in modelling and management; environmental planning; environmetric methods, including time-series analysis;
mathematical modelling, including data-based, physically based and simulation modelling; remote sensing and image processing; uncertainty
in environmental systems; and sensitivity analysis. The encyclopedia is extensively cross-referenced on two levels - to articles of direct
relevance as well as to other articles which will provide the reader with more general background information.
Included in series
Advances in Systems Control and Information Engineering
Audience:
For those working on environmental systems, or undergraduates and postgraduates studying environmental science (including ecology), engineering, or mathematics.
