Pollution : Causes, Effects and Control

✍ Scribed by R M Harrison, Oliver Jones, Martin R Preston, John Fawell, Will Mayes, Elise Cartmell, Simon Pollard, Roy M Harrison, A Robert Mackenzie, Martin Williams, Robert Maynard, Mike Ashmore, Claire Holman, Keith P Shine, Chris Collins, Gev Eduljee, Roland Clift, Stuart Harrad, C Nicholas Hewitt, Juana Maria Delgado-Saborit, William Howarth, Martin Bigg

• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 588
• Edition: 5
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Twenty years on from the first edition of Pollution and the topic remains high in the public awareness. Environmental pollution is now a major area of research, consultancy and technological development and is a priority for the political agendas of both the developed and developing worlds.

The fifth edition of this book is fully updated, and includes an entirely new chapter on Climate Change, presenting an authoritative view on this topic. Chapters in fast moving areas have been completely revised and several newcomers have joined the original set of authors.

This popular book has proved invaluable as a teaching resource for two decades and is frequently used as a reference by practitioners in the field. Readers of earlier editions will benefit from updates on technologies such as nanoscience, and the legislative changes that have occurred since the fourth edition in 2001.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Chemical Pollution of the Aquatic Environment by Priority Pollutants and Its Control
Chemistry and Pollution of the Marine Environment
Drinking Water Quality and Health
Water Pollution Biology
Sewage and Sewage Sludge Treatment
The Treatment of Toxic Wastes
Air Pollution: Sources, Concentrations and Measurements
Chemistry of the Troposphere
Chemistry and Pollution of the Stratosphere
Atmospheric Dispersal of Pollutants and the Modeling of Air Pollution
Human Health Effects of Air Pollutants
Impacts of Gaseous Pollutants on Crops, Trees and Ecosystems
Control of Pollutant Emissions from Road Traffic
Climate Change
Soil Pollution and Land Contamination
Solid Waste Management
Clean Technologies and Industrial Ecology
The Environmental Behaviour of Persistent Organic Pollutants
Radioactivity in the Environment
Health Effects of Environmental Chemicals
The Legal Control of Pollution
The Regulation of Industrial Pollution