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

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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

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