Description
Book Synopsis"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.
Trade Review".... valuable addition to the range of available texts ..." (Times Higher Educational Supplement, 4 January 2002)
"a useful source of reference" (World Surface Coatings Abstracts, January 2002
"a useful primer" (Industry Environment, January-March 2002)
"...The format of the book, with abundant high-quality colour illustrations excellent..." (Chemistry & Industry,5 August 2002)
"...This guide will be a must for undergraduate, graduate students taking environmental sciences course." (Int Jnl of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 82, No.10 2002)
"…This nice little book is something you would like to posess at once, given the chance to look through it for a minute…" (Int Jnl of Environment and Pollution, Vol.19, No.1, 2003)
"...a small compendium covering a truly wide array of topics with a didactically well written and presented range..." (Environmental Geology, Vol 44(876). 2003)
Table of ContentsPreface.
Introduction
MATERIALS CYCLES
Geochemical cycles
The carbon cycle
The nitrogen cycle
The sulphur cycle
The phosphorus cycle
Metal cycles
Special cycles
THE ATMOSPHERE
Physicochemical processes
Ecological photochemistry
Air pollution from combustion
Anthropogenous pollutants and their effects
Principles of air quality control
WATER
The Earth's water cycle
Chemistry in bodies of water
Processes for the preparation of drinking water
Basic principles of waste water chemistry and sewage treatment
SOIL
Basic principles of soil science
Physico- and biogeochemical processes
Metals and acid rain
Organic Contaminants
Methods for soil remediation
Chemistry and technology in landfills
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY OF SELECTED XENOBIOTICS AND HEAVY METALS
Pathways of pollutants, food chains and properties of materials
General decomposition pathways
Hydrocarbons: PAHs and PCBs
Dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans
Pesticides and tensides
Heavy metals and their species
PROBLEM- AND ACTIVITY-ORIENTED ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS
Environmental analaysis - strategies and concepts
Ecotoxicological concepts for evaluating risk
Bibliography
Index
