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Informationen zum Autor John Harte is a Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. He did his undergraduate studies at Harvard and his PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Wisconsin. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pew Scholars award, the Leo Szilard prize from the American Physical Society, and a George Polk award in investigative journalism. He is an elected Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society, the Ecological society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has also served on six National Academy of Sciences Committees and has authored over 250 scientific journal publications and eight books. John's research focuses on ecology, climate, complexity science, and environmental policy. Klappentext "This book should be read and used by all students of environmental studies, and should be an important acquisition for any research, teaching, or general academic library." Choice Zusammenfassung This book offers a variety of exciting techniques for approaching contemporary environmental problems! such as 'What was the pH of rainfall before the Industrial Revolution?' Inhaltsverzeichnis Warm-Up Exercises.- Tools of the Trade.- Steady-State Box Models and Residence Times.- Thermodynamics and Energy Transfer.- Chemical Reactions and Equilibria.- Non-Steady-State Box Models.- Biogeochemistry.- Climatology.- Survival of Populations.- Appendix: Useful Numbers.- Glossary.- Bibliography.- Answers to Exercises.- Index.
