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Title: Environment: Principles & Applications by Chris C. Park ISBN: 0-415-12200-7 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95

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Summary: Man is pushing the Earth to the very limits of its capacity
Comment: This book is about the environment and the ways in which human activities impact it. It is structured around two main themes, which are principles (the ways in which the environment works) and applications (the ways in which how an understanding of those basic principles helps us to utilize the environment and its resources). Additionally, a recurring theme throughout the book is the way in which we are pushing the Earth to the very limits of its capacity to sustain life as we know it. Human misuse of the planet's natural resources and disturbance of its natural environmental systems causes serious-if not irreversible- damage.

This book differs from most others about the environment in three main ways. Its systems approach stresses interactions and interrelationships between different parts of the environment; its interdisciplinary perspective offers a broader view so essential to an understanding of the complexity and diversity of how the environment works and its global scope shows how the most serious environmental problems require global solutions.

The 18 chapters are grouped into five parts; the introduction sets the context for today's rising environmental concern, demonstrates the usefulness of a systems approach to understand environmental processes and examines how the planet fits into the wider universe. The next four parts each focus on the lithosphere, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere and the biosphere, describing their salient environmental processes; processes such as those that shape climate, cleanse air and water, regulate water flow, recycle essential elements, and create and generate soil.

Reviewed by Azlan Adnan. Azlan is managing partner of Azlan & Koh Knowledge and Professional Management Group, a consulting practice based in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. He holds a Master's degree in International Business and Management.