Environmental engineering is an expanding profession, and some of that growth comes from the "environmental" part of the title, with developments in sustainability driving political and investment agendas and new questions being asked of traditional products and systems in terms of their recyclability, energy consumption and carbon footprint. So we've all got to be up in the terminology and in the issues as well, since the introduction of new criteria has blurred the process of decision-making which used to be based in large measure on the physical certainties determined by testing. And how do you find out about these things? Well, one way is to buy a book - that symbol of old ways of doing things, when we'd wantonly sacrifice trees in the pursuit of knowledge. And it just so happens that the long-running and hugely-successful "...for Dummies" series, published these days by the reputable academic publisher John Wiley & Sons, has produced a new single volume: Environmental Science for Dummies.
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