Geoenvironmental Sustainability
- ISBN-10
- 1420004352
- ISBN-13
- 9781420004359
- Category
- Technology & Engineering
- Pages
- 387
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-07-27
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Authors
- Raymond N. Yong, Catherine N. Mulligan, Masaharu Fukue
Description
Industrialization, urbanization, agriculture, and resource exploitation are activities associated with a developing society. Geoenvironmental Sustainability focuses on such a society's geoenvironment and the natural capital that defines it. The book explains these elements in systematic detail, particularly with respect to their relationship to fiv
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