Managing Soils and Terrestrial Systems (Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, SixVolume Set)

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through indepth entries and a topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about environmental problems and their corresponding management issues. This sixvolume set is a reimagining of the awardwinning Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights from more than 400 contributors, all experts in their field.The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying environmental management are presented here in six standalone volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems.FeaturesThe first handbook that demonstrates the key processes and provisions for enhancing environmental managementAddresses new and cuttingedge topics on ecosystem services, resilience, sustainability, foodenergywater nexus, socioecological systems, and moreProvides an excellent basic knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems function, and offers strategies on how to best manage themIncludes the most important problems and solutions facing environmental management todayIn this third volume, Managing Soils and Terrestrial Systems, the general concepts and processes of the geosphere with its related soil and terrestrial systems are introduced. It explains how these systems function and provides strategies on how to best manage them. It serves as an excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on the geosphere systems and includes important problems and solutions that environmental managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental management.