Understanding the Environment: Bridging the Disciplinary DividesBridging the Disciplinary Divides brings together some of the world's leading environmental researchers in the life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences and humanities to bridge the disciplinary divides in understanding the environment. |
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Contents
List of Figures | 1 |
History and the environment | 8 |
the study of humanity | 23 |
Economics of the environment | 40 |
The environment and human health | 57 |
Policy analysis environment and sustainability | 76 |
Ecology | 97 |
Environmental earth science | 113 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Understanding the Environment: Bridging the Disciplinary Divides |
| Author | R. Quentin Grafton |
| Editors | R. Quentin Grafton, Libby Robin, R. Wasson, Robert J. Wasson |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | UNSW Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 086840912X, 9780868409122 |
| Length | 229 pages |
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