Jorgensen S.E., Johnsen I. Principles of Environmental Science and Technology

Elsevier, 1981. — 529 p. — ISBN: 0-444-99721-0 (Studies in Environmental Science 14)The past two decades have created a new interdisciplinary field: environmental science, which is concerned with our environments and the interaction between the environment and man. Understanding environmental processes and the influence man has on these processes requires knowledge of a wide spectrum of natural sciences. Obviously biology, chemistry and physics are basic disciplines for understanding the biological-chemical-physical processes in the environment. But environmental science draws also upon geology for an understanding of soil processes and the transport of material between the hydrosphere and lithosphere, on hydrodynamics for an understanding of the transport processes in the hydrosphere, and upon meteorology for an explanation of the transport processes in the atmospher just to mention a few of the many disciplines applied in environmental science.