Del i serien Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment

Critical Skills for Environmental Professionals

Putting Knowledge into Practice

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvJennifer Pontius,Alan McIntosh

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It covers critical scientific skills and ways of thinking that bridge the gap between the knowledge-based content of introductory environmental textbooks and the professional skills students of the environment need to succeed in both their academic programs and professional careers.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-12-21
Mått210 x 279 x 19 mm
Vikt754 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpringer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment
Antal sidor188
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030285418

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Jennifer Pontius: Professor Pontius is a research ecologist with the US Forest Service Northern Research Station, a Research Assistant Professor of remote sensing and applied statistics at the University of Vermont, Director of the Environmental Science Program at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and Principal Investigator of the Vermont Monitoring Cooperative and the McIntire Stennis Forest Health and Climate Change Research Umbrella. Her primary research interests focus on scaling plot-based forest health relationships to a landscape-scale using remote sensing and GIS modeling.Alan McIntosh: After receiving his PhD in limnology at Michigan State University, Professor McIntosh taught at Purdue University and Rutgers University before joining the School of Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. He served as Director of the Vermont Water Resources and Lake Studies Center, and he chaired the Environmental Sciences Program in the school from 1995 until 2013. He taught a number of environmental courses, including the introductory environmental science class each semester during that period.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Navigating Scientific Literature.- Chapter 3: The Scientific Method in Environmental Science.- Chapter 4: Establishing Cause-Effect Connections.- Chapter 5: Critical Thinking.- Chapter 6: Systems Thinking.- Chapter 7: Interdisciplinary Frameworks.- Chapter 8: Socio-ecological systems: The Human Connection.- Chapter 9: Working Across Scales: Time.- Chapter 10: Working Across Scales: Space.- Chapter 11: Thinking Outside the Box.- Chapter 12: Translating Science: communicating like a professional.- Chapter 13: Ecological Justice.