Soil and Water Contamination, 2nd Edition

✍ Scribed by Perk, Marcel van der

Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 658
Edition: 2nd ed
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION PART I AN INTRODUCTION TO SOIL AND WATER CONTAMINATION 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 Historical perspective 1.2 Environmental pollution 1.3 Environmental pollutants 1.3.1 Classification of pollutants 1.3.2 Background concentrations 1.3.3 Anthropogenic sources 1.4 Ecological impacts 1.5 Spatial and temporal variability and the concept of scale 1.6 Outline and Read more...

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Soil and Water Contamination, 2nd Edition provides an overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contamination, in such a way that the reader can both understand and predict Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front Cover
Contents
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO SOIL AND WATER CONTAMINATION
1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION
2. BASIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
3. ENVIRONMENTAL COMPARTMENTS
PART II: SOURCES, ROLE, AND BEHAVIOUR OF SUBSTANCES IN SOIL AND WATER
4. SOLID PHASE CONSTITUENTS
5. MAJOR DISSOLVED PHASE CONSTITUENTS
6. NUTRIENTS
7. HEAVY METALS
8. RADIONUCLIDES
9. ORGANIC POLLUTANTS
PART III: TRANSPORT PROCESSES OF SUBSTANCES IN SOIL AND WATER
10. SYSTEMS AND MODELS
11. SUBSTANCE TRANSPORT
12. SEDIMENT TRANSPORT AND DEPOSITION. 13. CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATION14. GAS EXCHANGE
15. MODEL CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION
PART IV: PATTERNS OF SUBSTANCES IN SOIL AND WATER
16. PATTERNS IN THE SOIL AND IN THE VADOSE ZONE
17. PATTERNS IN GROUNDWATER
18. PATTERNS IN SURFACE WATER
REFERENCES
APPENDIX I: THE PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS
APPENDIX 2: ANSWERS TO EXERCISES
Back Cover.

✦ Subjects

Soil pollution;Water -- Pollution;Pollutants -- Transport properties;Contaminated sediments

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