Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Environmental Science

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Editor in Chief: H. H. Shugart

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Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Environmental Science

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Editor in Chief: H. H. Shugart

Description

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science is part of a major initiative from Oxford University Press to transform its approach to reference publishing in order to better serve the changing needs of university-level digital research.

Through the Oxford Research Encyclopedia (ORE) program, Oxford is building dynamic online encyclopedias in 20+ disciplines that will be continuously updated by the world's leading scholars, scientists, and researchers. With expert editors and peer-review, the ORE project will combine the discoverability of digital with the standards of academic publishing.

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science is overseen by Hank Shugart of the University of Virginia and an editorial board of subject experts, ensuring a comprehensive, encyclopedic map of the field.

Updated monthly, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science will grow with the field over time. Multi-media features embedded in articles, along with cross-referenced links to related content will further expand the scope of the ORE. With in-depth peer-reviewed articles and broad coverage of the field the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science will become an invaluable resource.

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science is currently available via subscription as scholarly articles are gradually added to the site.

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Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Environmental Science

A Community of Scholars

Editor in Chief: H. H. Shugart

Editorial Board

H.H. (Hank) Shugart is the W.W. Corcoran Professor of Environmental Sciences and the Director of the Center for Regional Environmental Studies at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Georgia in 1971, and worked for the next 13 years in Tennessee — eventually as a Senior Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and as a Professor in Botany and the Graduate Program in Ecology at the University of Tennessee.

In 1984, he moved to his current position at University of Virginia. Dr. Shugart has also served as a Visiting Fellow in the Australian National University (1978-1979, 1993-1994), in Australia's Commonwealth Industrial and Scientific Research Organization, Division of Land Use Research (1982) and Division of Wildlife and Ecology (1993-1994), in the International Meteorological Institute at the University of Stockholm, Sweden (1984), and in the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria (1987,1989). He has served on the editorial board of several scholarly journals including Ecology and Ecological Monographs, Annual Reviews in Ecology and Systematics, Biological Conservation, Landscape Ecology, Journal of Vegetation Science, Forest Science, Global Change Biology and The Australian Journal of Botany.

He is the author of more than 300 publications including 11 books, 60 book chapters and 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Contributors:

Advisory Board
R. Betts : Climate change & impacts
R. Bindschadler : Iced & remote sensing
O. Brown : Oceanography
A. Cerda : Soil systems sciences
M. Dourojeanni : Amazon
L. Fleming : Environmental Health
K. Gaston : Conservation biology
R. Hazlett : Environmental Analysis
I. Iturbe : Hydrology
C.L. Kwa : Sustainable Development
Y. Malhi : Biodiversity
L. Molina : Atmospheric Pollution
W. Steffen : Climate change, Global Scale

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Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Environmental Science

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Editor in Chief: H. H. Shugart

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