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" This excellent and most reasonably priced guide is essential reading and a valuable reference source " (The ROSPA Occupational Safety Health Jnl. March 2002)

The Essential Guide to Environmental Chemistry outlines the problems and issues facing the environmental chemist throughout the ecosystem. Presented as a ?pocket-atlas?, this useful guide provides a concise overview of environmental pollution in air, water and soil as well as strategies for environmental analysis.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. xiv)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• 1 Material Cycles
• 1.1 Geochemical cycles
• 1.2 The carbon cycle
• 1.3 The nitrogen cycle
• 1.4 The sulphur cycle
• 1.5 The phosphorus cycle
• 1.6 Metal cycles
• 1.7 Special cycles
• 2 The Atmosphere
• 2.1 Physicochemical processes
• 2.2 Ecological photochemistry
• 2.3 Air pollution from combustion
• 2.4 Anthropogenous pollutants and their effects
• 2.5 Principles of air quality control
• 3 Water
• 3.1 The Earth's water cycle
• 3.2 Chemistry in bodies of water
• 3.3 Processes for the preparation of drinking water
• 3.4 Basic principles of waste water chemistry and sewage treatment
• 4 Soil
• 4.1 Basic principles of soil science
• 4.2 Physico- and biogeochemical processes
• 4.3 Metals and acid rain
• 4.4 Organic contaminants
• 4.5 Methods for soil remediation
• 4.6 Chemistry and technology in landfills
• 5 Environmental Chemistry of Selected Xenobiotics and Heavy Metals
• 5.1 Pathways of pollutants, food chains and properties of materials
• 5.2 General decomposition pathways
• 5.3 Hydrocarbons: PAHs and PCBs
• 5.4 Dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans
• 5.5 Pesticides and tensides
• 5.6 Heavy metals and their species
• 6 Problem- and Activity-Oriented Environmental Analysis
• 6.1 Environmental analysis--strategies and concepts
• 6.2 Ecotoxicological concepts for evaluating risk
• Bibliography (p. 238)
• Index (p. 240)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Georg Schwedt studied chemistry at the University of GÖttingen, Germany, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Hanover, Germany. Schwedt was appointed Director of the Institute of Food Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart. From 1987 until his retirement in 2006, he has been Professor of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at the Clausthal University of Technology. Since 2006, he has worked at the University of Bonn, Germany. Schwedt is the author of several analytical chemistry textbooks and a large number of popular science books.