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Chemical principles of environmental pollution / B. J. Alloway and D. C. Ayres.

By: Alloway, B. J.
Contributor(s): Ayres, D. C.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Blackie Academic & Professional, 1997Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xvii,395p : ill ; 25cm + pbk.ISBN: 0751403806 (m); 9780751403800.Subject(s): Environmental chemistry | Pollution | Environment and Ecology | Pollution control | Pollution & threats to the environment | Environmental science, engineering & technologyDDC classification: 577.27 ALL Summary: The new edition of this successful text provides a sound 'hard science' basis to the chemical principles of environmental pollution, enabling readers to address controversial issues from a fact-based standpoint.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An authoritative introduction to the scientific principles underlying environmental pollution, this book covers the transport, toxicity, and analysis of pollutants and discusses the major types of contaminant chemicals. Students will gain an understanding of the scientific principles of pollution at the chemical level and be able to approach the contentious issues in a rational way. Taking a pollution oriented approach, the authors discuss legislative limits, analysis of metals, oestrogenic chemicals, indoor and vehicular pollution, pesticides, dioxin-like substances, and more.

Previous ed.: 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The new edition of this successful text provides a sound 'hard science' basis to the chemical principles of environmental pollution, enabling readers to address controversial issues from a fact-based standpoint.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Basic principles
  • Introduction
  • Transport and Behaviour of Pollutants in the Environment
  • Toxicity and Risk Assessment of Environmental Pollutants
  • Analysis and Monitoring of Pollutants
  • The pollutants
  • Inorganic Pollutants
  • Organic Pollutants
  • Indoor Pollution
  • Waste and other multipollutant situations
  • Wastes and Their Disposal
  • Appendix
  • Index