News Release

Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, 2nd edition

6-volume set

Book Announcement

Wiley

The 2nd Edition of the Encyclopedia of Environmetrics published by Wiley in print and online is an expanded and revised reference work intended for use in university libraries, research laboratories, government institutions and consultancies concerned with the environmental sciences.

Over 130 new and updated articles from the new edition have been added to the existing encyclopedia online. See http://www.wiley.com/go/eoenv for more details.

Over the past decade the discipline of environmetrics has experienced a burst of vitality and progress. The second edition of the Encyclopedia of Environmetrics is a timely expansion and revision of the definitive reference.

Key features of the 2nd edition include:

  • Expanded to six volumes to reflect developments in the environmetrics techniques and applications during past decade
  • Over 60% articles are new or revised
  • New section: Environmental Engineering and Technology
  • Increased breadth and depth of coverage in key application areas such as climate science and hydrological processes
  • Revised and updated treatment of methodology including spatial-temporal statistics, computational statistics and modeling extremes
  • Greater emphasis on practitioner-oriented content

About the Authors

Abdel El-Shaarawi, National Water Research Institute, Ontario, Canada and McMaster University, Ontario, Canada and The American University in Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt is the founding editor of the journal Environmetrics' and founding President of The International Environmetrics Society. El-Shaarawi is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (United Kingdom), the American Statistical Association (ASA) and the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Walt Piegorsch, BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA is a previous Chairman of the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and the Environment.

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About Wiley

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Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, 2nd Edition - 6 Volume Set
December 2012 • 3510pp
Cloth 978-0-470-97388-2
$1995; CAN $2195; €1650; £1280
Online 978-0-470-05733-9
Online prices available on request


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