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Soil, water, and air constitute the environmental continuum. These three components of the continuum are dynamically interactive. In other words, if there is a change in one component, the effect of this change propagates to the other components. This means that the environment has to be dealt with as a cohesive whole (or as an integrated system) which often is not the case. For example, for a variety of reasons — scientific, technological, political, administrative, etc. — the environment in practice is not managed as a continuum. Each component of the continuum is considered separately, often with little accounting for its interaction with other components.
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Singh, V.P., Hager, W.H. (1996). What is Environmental Hydraulics?. In: Singh, V.P., Hager, W.H. (eds) Environmental Hydraulics. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8664-1_1
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