| 书目名称 | Indicators of Environmental Quality |
| 副标题 | Proceedings of a sym |
| 编辑 | William A. Thomas (Group Leader) |
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| 丛书名称 | Environmental Science Research |
| 图书封面 |  |
| 描述 | Researchers and agencies collect reams of objective data and authors publish volumes of subjective prose in attempts to explain what is meant by environmental quality. Still, we have no universally recognized methods for combining our quantitative measures with our qualitative concepts of environ ment. Not all of our environmental goals should be reduced to mere numbers, but many of them can be; and without these quantitative terms, we have no way of defining our present position nor of selecting positions we wish to attain on any logically established scale of environmental values. Stated simply, in our zeal to measure our environment we often forget that masses of numbers describing a system are insufficient to understand it or to be used in selecting goals and priorities for expending our economic and human resources. Attempts at quantitatively describing environmental quality, rather than merely measuring different environmental variables, are relatively recent. This condensing of data into the optimum number of terms with maximum information content is a truly interdisciplinary challenge. When Oak Ridge National Laboratory initiated its Environmental Program in early 1970 und |
| 出版日期 | Conference proceedings 1972 |
| 关键词 | development; ecology; environment; environmental pollution; formation; research; soil |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2856-8 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-1-4684-2858-2 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-1-4684-2856-8 |
| copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 1972 |
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