This textbook provides a thorough introduction to the sustainable, productive use of land resources vital in maintaining healthy rivers and good groundwater qualities. Calvin Rose develops a quantitative approach to studying these growing environmental concerns and makes the textbook suitable for introductory university courses, as well as a useful primer for research and management staff in environmental organizations. Each chapter ends with a set of student exercises for which solutions are available from solutions@cambridge.org.
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'If you are new to the subject, want to learn of environmental physics from first principles and prepare yourself for more advanced texts and for the real world then get this book. If you teach newcomers then you might like to recommend it to them.' European Journal of Soil Science
'An Introduction to the Environmental Physics of Soil, Water and Watersheds provides a very attractive blend of introductory environmental science and environmental engineering, practical environmental problems and academic rigour ... the examples and exercises greatly enhance the book's value for undergraduate teaching in environmental science and environmental engineering. The book also has clear and informative illustrations and the captions to the figures are generally self-explanatory ... I have read this book with a great deal of interest: I have used it successfully in recent months in an undergraduate environmental engineering course dealing with landsurface processes. I have no doubt that it will be used widely by students, educators, environmental scientists/engineers and agronomists. Calvin Rose is to be congratulated on this valuable new book.' Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
'Subject content within the book provides a breadth of material that is well suited to most environmental scientists, and is accessible for students with a limited quantitative background. Rose presents a well-written text ...'. Hydrological Processes
'Dr Rose explains the theory in self-contained chapters with practical examples and he uses many attractive figures to illustrate and summarize the most important results. The reader does not need advanced calculus or physics to understand the book ... It is also highly recommended for farmers and technical staff in environmental and resource management organizations who have the task to put the idea of sustainable land use into practice ... an introductory text that is enjoyable to read. It provides the necessary physical basis to discuss how we can develop sustainable use of our land and water resources.' Markus Deurer, WISPAS
'An Introduction to the Environmental Physics of Soil, Water and Watersheds provides a very attractive blend of introductory environmental science and environmental engineering, practical environmental problems and academic rigour ... the examples and exercises greatly enhance the book's value for undergraduate teaching in environmental science and environmental engineering. The book also has clear and informative illustrations and the captions to the figures are generally self-explanatory ... I have read this book with a great deal of interest: I have used it successfully in recent months in an undergraduate environmental engineering course dealing with landsurface processes. I have no doubt that it will be used widely by students, educators, environmental scientists/engineers and agronomists. Calvin Rose is to be congratulated on this valuable new book.' Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
'Subject content within the book provides a breadth of material that is well suited to most environmental scientists, and is accessible for students with a limited quantitative background. Rose presents a well-written text ...'. Hydrological Processes
'Dr Rose explains the theory in self-contained chapters with practical examples and he uses many attractive figures to illustrate and summarize the most important results. The reader does not need advanced calculus or physics to understand the book ... It is also highly recommended for farmers and technical staff in environmental and resource management organizations who have the task to put the idea of sustainable land use into practice ... an introductory text that is enjoyable to read. It provides the necessary physical basis to discuss how we can develop sustainable use of our land and water resources.' Markus Deurer, WISPAS
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This textbook provides a thorough introduction to the sustainable, productive use of land resources that is vital in maintaining healthy rivers and good groundwater qualities. The author develops a quantitative approach to studying these growing environmental concerns. The straightforward writing style, lack of prerequisite knowledge and copious illustrations make this textbook suitable for introductory university courses, as well as being a useful primer for research and management staff in environmental organisations. Each chapter ends with a set of student exercises for which solutions are available from solutions@cambridge.org.
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If we were in a space craft looking back at earth we would see something like the view shown in the picture above. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ponded depth, excess rainfall rate, plane land surface, hydraulic lag, soil water suction, mean infiltration rate, infiltrometer ring, downslope length, excess stream power, saltation load, potential infiltration rate, solute peak, total soil loss, sensible heat flux density, vadoze zone, spectral radiant emittance, actual infiltration rate, constant hydraulic head, saturation overland flow, immersed weight, sorbed chemicals, volumetric water content, dryland salinity, eroding sediment, available water content Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Soil Conservation Service, Soil Res, Prentice-Hall International, After Rose, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Pergamon Press, Soil Sci, Agricultural Physics, New Zealand, Multiple Scales, Penning de Vries, Soil Technol, Academic Press, Introduction There, Irrigation Drainage Eng, Weather Bureau, Whilst Fig New!
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ponded depth, excess rainfall rate, plane land surface, hydraulic lag, soil water suction, mean infiltration rate, infiltrometer ring, downslope length, excess stream power, saltation load, potential infiltration rate, solute peak, total soil loss, sensible heat flux density, vadoze zone, spectral radiant emittance, actual infiltration rate, constant hydraulic head, saturation overland flow, immersed weight, sorbed chemicals, volumetric water content, dryland salinity, eroding sediment, available water content Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Soil Conservation Service, Soil Res, Prentice-Hall International, After Rose, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Pergamon Press, Soil Sci, Agricultural Physics, New Zealand, Multiple Scales, Penning de Vries, Soil Technol, Academic Press, Introduction There, Irrigation Drainage Eng, Weather Bureau, Whilst Fig New!
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- Soil Physics by T. J. Marshall on 4 pages
- Fluvial Hydrology by S. L. Dingman on page 44, and page 258
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson on page 382, and page 417
- Soil Physics by William A. Jury on page 417
- Living in the Environment by G. Tyler Miller on page 195
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- Principles and Practice of Soil Science: The Soil as a Natural Resource by Robert E. White on page 131
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