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Dictionary of environmental science and technology / Andrew Porteous.

By: Porteous, Andrew.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: [Chichester] ; New York : Wiley, 1992Edition: Rev. ed.Description: xiv, 439 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0471935441 .Subject(s): Environmental sciences -- Dictionaries | Sanitary engineering -- DictionariesDDC classification: 333.7203
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Revised, including additional new and expanded entries, it provides users with a working knowledge of the scientific and technical terminology associated with environmental studies and related issues. Features illuminating tables and diagrams, a directory of organizations plus a guide to further reading. Will stimulate and inform everyone concerned with the world's environmental crisis.

Previous ed.: Milton Keynes : Open University, 1991.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface to Fourth Edition
  • Preface to Third Edition
  • Preface to Second Edition
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • The Dictionary
  • Appendix I Pollution and the environment รป organizations
  • Appendix II The Periodic TableTable of Chemical Elements
  • Appendix III Table of Prefixes for SI units
  • Appendix IV Conversion table for SI and British units