tailieunhanh - Environmental Science (Specialized English for Environmental Courses)

This book is basically the result of six years of teaching in the field of environmental science. Some of my graduate and undergraduate students using this book have been being engineers, practitioners, and officers. I am very grateful to them for their patience and tolerance as it progressed from crude lectures to its present book. This book is divided into 5 chapters: Chapter 1: Basic units of ecology | VO DINH LONG Environmental Science Specialized English for Environmental Courses PART 1 PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Ho Chi Minh University of Industry Publishing House 2011 3 PREFACE This book is basically the result of six years of teaching in the field of environmental science. Some of my graduate and undergraduate students using this book have been being engineers practitioners and officers. I am very grateful to them for their patience and tolerance as it progressed from crude lectures to its present book. This book is divided into 5 chapters Chapter 1 Basic units of ecology. Chapter 2 Materials and nutrient cycles. Chapter 3 Humankind s invention with nature. Chapter 4 The pollution problems. Chapter 5 Sustainable development and the future. Many problems are discussed in the book include the ecosystem materials and nutrient cycles balance of nature progress in agriculture engineering and medicine adverse effects of people s activities air water and soil pollution pollution reduction how the global environment faces and the meaning of sustainable development. Although this book contributes by one person for the purpose of teaching and reading. I am lucky to have the supports from so many people and without their helps this book would not have been published. While most people did not help directly on my theme one of them contributed in some ways towarded helping me. Many thanks to my colleagues at Ho Chi Minh University of Industry Prof. Le Huy Ba for reading my book and offering valuable advice Miss. Nguyen Le Kim Cuong and Mrs. Nguyen 4 Thi Thu Thuy for using my crude lectures for their teaching and Miss. Nguyen Thi Hong Nhung for her reading and commending. I would also like to thank all of them for numerous hours they have allowed me to spend with them in discussing my book confirming reading notes and helping me with this book. The most importantly of all my thanks also to the editorial staff of Ho Chi Minh University publishing house for their .