Environmental Geology Principles

Author: Li Tianjie
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Principles of Environmental Geology focuses on the migration, transformation, and exchange of matter, energy, and information within the human-Earth environmental complex system. It emphasizes the relationships between subsystems and global change, the co-evolution of organisms and the environment, the impact and role of human processes on the complex system, and comprehensively elaborates on and analyzes the composition and structure, state and function, interaction and coupling, as well as driving and feedback processes of the seven spheres in the surface system: the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, pedosphere, biosphere, and noosphere. The book is divided into nine chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the research objects, content, and tasks of environmental geology; Chapters 2 to 8 discuss the structure, function, and evolution of each sphere, inter-sphere relationships, sustainable development and orderly human activities; Chapter 9 focuses on some fundamental theoretical issues in environmental geology. This book is suitable for university teachers and students in environmental science, geoscience, and related fields, as well as personnel in scientific research, planning, management, and decision-making departments.