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Ecology and Applied Environmental Science addresses the impact of contemporary environmental problems by using the main principles of scientific ecology. It offers a brief yet comprehensive explanation of ecosystems based on energy, populations, and cycles of chemical elements. The book presents a variety of scientific ecological issues and uses these to examine a range of environmental problems while considering potential engineering, scientific, and managerial solutions. It takes an engineering approach and avoids excessive biological detail, while introducing ecology with a systemic approach. The book examines categories of organisms as well as the physical and chemical processes that affect them. It refers to the dynamics of populations and analysis of their major mutual influences, elaborates on the roles of primary production, limiting factors, energy flow, and circulation of chemical substances in the ecosystems, and presents the basic functions of aquatic ecosystems.

Ecology. --- Environmental sciences. --- Environmental engineering. --- Environmental control --- Environmental effects --- Environmental stresses --- Engineering --- Environmental health --- Environmental protection --- Pollution --- Sustainable engineering --- Environmental science --- Science --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Ecology --- Biodiversity and Landscape Protection --- Ecological Systems --- Environment and Development --- Fundamentals of Environmental Problems --- Management of Environmental Problems

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Global warming and population growth have resulted in an increase in the intensity of natural and anthropogenic stressors. Investigating the complex nature of environmental problems requires the integration of different environmental processes across major components of the environment, including water, climate, ecology, air, and land. Cumulative effects assessment (CEA) not only includes analyzing and modeling environmental changes, but also supports planning alternatives that promote environmental monitoring and management.Disjointed and narrowly focused environmental management approaches have proved dissatisfactory. The adoption of integrated modelling approaches has sparked interests in the development of frameworks which may be used to investigate the processes of individual environmental component and the ways they interact with each other. Integrated modelling systems and frameworks are often the only way to take into account the important environmental processes and interactions, relevant spatial and temporal scales, and feedback mechanisms of complex systems for CEA.This book examines the ways in which interactions and relationships between environmental components are understood, paying special attention to climate, land, water quantity and quality, and both anthropogenic and natural stressors. It reviews modelling approaches for each component and reviews existing integrated modelling systems for CEA. Finally, it proposes an integrated modelling framework and provides perspectives on future research avenues for cumulative effects assessment.

Environmental impact analysis. --- Cumulative effects assessment (Environmental assessment) --- Hydrology. --- Aquatic sciences --- Earth sciences --- Hydrography --- Water --- Environmental impact analysis --- Assessment of cumulative environmental effects --- Cumulative environmental effects assessment --- Environmental auditing --- Environmental monitoring --- Environmental protection --- Analysis of environmental impact --- Environmental assessment --- Environmental impact assessment --- Environmental impact evaluation --- Impact analysis, Environmental --- Athabasca Region. --- Athabasca River. --- Environmental problems. --- acidification. --- air quality. --- anthropogenetic stressors. --- applied modeling system. --- applied modelling. --- atmospheric deposition. --- climate change. --- cumulative effects assessment. --- environmental analysis. --- environmental impact assessment. --- environmental model. --- environmental modelling framework. --- environmental modelling. --- environmental planning. --- ground water interaction. --- groundwater. --- hydrodynamics. --- hydrology. --- integrated model. --- integrated modelling. --- land use/land cover. --- load allocation. --- natural stressors. --- surface water interaction. --- surface water. --- water allocation. --- water quality. --- watershed.