TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Gruiz, Katalin,
AU  -  Meggyes, T.
AU  -  Fenyvesi, Eva,
TI  -  Environmental deterioration and contamination: problems and thei r management 
T2  -  Engineering tools for environmental risk management
SN  -  9781138001541 (hardback)
U1  -  363.738  23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  -  Boca Raton
PB  -  CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group
KW  -  Ecosystem services
KW  -  Social aspects
KW  -  Government policy
KW  -  Pollutants
KW  -  Environmental risk assessment
KW  -  Environmental management
N1  -  Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  -  "Industrial, agricultural, residential land uses and the connected d ischarge of chemical substances cause environmental problems world-wide . This volume provides an overview on the behavior and function of the healthy environment, the capacity of the ecosystem to serve humanity an d compensate for adverse changes. The prime contributors to these chang es such as production and use of chemical substances, abandoned and con taminated land, chemical agriculture, mining and the complex waste prob lem are introduced. The focus of this book is environmental knowledge a nd its conscious and structured application in environmental management and decision making"--
ER  -