Environmental Statistics

Environmental statistics is a rapidly growing discipline that isimportant not only as a division of professional and academicstatistics, but also in the accumulation of data onenvironmental effects and in the formulation of environmentalpolicy by government agencies. This book features contributions from policy makers, scientistsactively involved in collection of data, and professional, academicand government statisticians. These explore theinterfaces between the different areas of application ofenvironmental statistics and consider the future applicationsof methods arising from this discipline. Some of the chapters dealspecifically with environmental models and methods. Here, thecontributors explain specialized statistical techniques that havebeen developed for analysing environmental data and mathematicalmodels that have been applied to the problem of integratinglarge amounts of environmental data into a coherent picture ofparticular environmental systems. Several of the contributions dealspecifically with the problems involved in co-ordinating datacollection over large geographical areas and over many dimensionsof measurement. Finally, the book discusses the problems offormulating specific environmental policies given the nature of theinformation that has been made available using environmentalstatistical methods.