Pollution : causes, effects, and control / edited by Roy M. Harrison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrison, Roy M., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pollution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (617 pages)

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pollution: Causes, Effects and Control is the fourth edition of a best-selling introductory level book dealing with chemical and radioactive pollution in its broadest sense. The scope of the book ranges from the sources of pollutants and their environmental behaviour, to their effects on human and non-human receptors, to the technologies and strategies available for control.The fourth edition has been wholly revised and updated from the previous edition due to the rapid pace of developments in this field. Topics covered include chemical pollution of freshwater and marine environments, drinking

Contents:

Chemical pollution of the aquatic environment by priority pollutants and its control / B. Crathorne, Y.J. Rees and S. France

Chemistry and pollution of the marine environment / M.R. Preston and R. Chester

Drinking water quality and health / J.K. Fawell and G. Stanfield

Water pollution biology / C.F. Mason

Sewage and sewage sludge treatment / J. Lester and D. Edge

The treatment of toxic wastes / A. James

Air pollution / R.M. Harrison

Chemistry and climate change in the troposphere / R.M. Harrison

Chemistry and the pollution of the stratosphere / A.R. MacKenzie

Atmospheric dispersal of pollutants and the modelling of air pollution / M.L. Williams

The health effects of air pollution / S. Walters and J. Ayres

Impacts of gaseous pollutants on crops, trees and ecosystems / T.A. Mansfield and P.W. Lucas

Control of pollutant emissions from road traffic / C. Holman

Soil pollution and land contamination / B.J. Alloway

Solid waste management / G. Eduljee and D. Arthur

Clean technologies and industrial ecology / R. Clift

The environmental behaviour of persistent organic pollutants / S. Harrad

Radioactivity in the environment / C.N. Hewitt

Health effects of environmental chemicals / P.T.C. Harrison

The legal control of pollution / R. Macrory

Integrated pollution prevention and control / D. Slater.

Notes:

Previous ed.: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-59124-927-9

OCLC:

850160909