Product Description

A lively, comprehensive introduction for environmental study, explaining how the environment functions, how environmental systems relate, and the ways in which people and the environment interact.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71582 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 704 pages

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"An excellent text... ample thought-provoking material to stimulate student groups, accompanied by clear and concise figures, diagrams and charts..."SOURCE1:Clive Roberts, University of Wolverhampton, UK

Review
'A lively and stimulating text, written with real enthusiasm and verve. Concepts are thoroughly and imaginatively explained. The use of boxes is excellent, as is the detail across a wide range of topics. Park aims to motivate students, to provoke them into new ways of thinking about the natural environment and the way it is changing. Courses dealing with the basic principles need to reach out to some of the implications presented in this book.' - Julian Mayes, Roehampton Institute

'A lively text, exceptionally broad based in its span of material and its aims of appreciating how the environment works and hangs together. Promotes an understanding of the nuts and bolts of environmental systems and how they fit together. Complex systems are clearly explained from first principles; there are reader-friendly summary boxes, tables and illustrations are culled from a wide range. Presentation is excellent, up-to-date, globally spread, and delivered at a level appropriate to an undergraduate audience, both North American and UK/Europe.' - John Smith, Aberdeen University

Beverley Wemple, University of Vermont, USA
"I find the content superior to virtually all I have seen on the market."

Customer Reviews

A fantastic companion for all levels
This gigantic book could be the perfect answer for students of the environment at any level - from GCSE up to post-graduate. It is THAT useful.

The sheer ease of use of Chris Park's book is it's winning point. For those just wanting the basics, the bare facts are available on all topics in large boxes, while for those needing some research for their University work, the explainations and theories and more than satisfactory. Throw in some excellent photographs and diagrams and you have a truely complete text.

Whatever the environmental topic, it is almost certain to be in this outstanding text. I highly recommend it.

The Answer to all your post graduate worries
If you are doing a post graduate environment course then this is the text book for you. I now don't have to make any notes in lectures because my lecturer simply uses Parks text as his. Many thanks Chris!