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Book Synopsis''Environmental forensics'' is a combination of analytical and environmental chemistry, which is useful in the court room context. It therefore involves field analytical studies and both data interpretation and modelling connected with the attribution of pollution events to their causes. Recent decades have seen a burgeoning of legislation designed to protect the environment and, as the costs of environmental damage and clean-up are considerable, not only are there prosecutions by regulatory agencies, but the courts are also used as a means of adjudication of civil damage claims relating to environmental causes or environmental degradation. As a result is the increasing number of prosecutions of companies who have breached regulations for environmental protection and in civil claims relating to harm caused by excessive pollutant releases to the environment. Such cases can become extremely protracted as expert witnesses provide their sometimes conflicting interpretations of environmenta
Trade Review"...this is a very useful book which gives an excellent position statement on the application of the techniques and of their limitations in environmental forensics. A required purchase, I am sure, for all institutional libraries where these sorts of activities take place. " * Chemistry World, Future Issue, Paul Kneller *
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Environmental Forensics and the Importance of Source Identification; Chapter 2: Microbial Techniques for Environmental Forensics ; Chapter 3: Using Stable Isotopes to Determine Sources; Chapter 4: Diagnostic Compounds for Fingerprinting Petroleum in the Environment; Chapter 5: Perchlorate: Is Nature the Main Manufacturer; Chapter 6: Tracking Chlorinated Solvents in the Environment; Chapter 7: Groundwater Pollution: The Emerging Role of Environmental Forensics;
