Ecology and Applied Environmental Science

This textbook presents a brief theoretical approach to ecology, based on energy, populations, and cycles of chemical elements. It also presents a good selection of environmental problems with potential engineering, scientific, and managerial solutions. It takes an engineering approach and avoids too much biological detail. The book introduces system analysis and describes the structure and function of the ecosystem. It provides a short and comprehensive approach to appropriate environmental management, based on sound ecological theory and applied science and technology.