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This book is an interdisciplinary and accessible guide to environmental physics. It allows readers to gain a more complete understanding of physical process and their interaction with ecological ones underpin important environmental issues. The book covers a wide range of topics within environmental physics, including: * natural and anthropogenic canopies, including forests, urban or wavy terrains;* the fundamentals of heat transfer;* atmospheric flow dynamics;* global carbon budget;* climate change; and* the relevance of biochar as a global carbon sink. Including solved exercises, numerous illustrations and tables, as well as an entire chapter focused on applications, book is of interest to researchers, students and industrial engineers alike.