Atmosphere and air pollution / editor, Craig W. Allin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allin, Craig W. (Craig Willard)

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Air--Pollution.

Air.

Environmental sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 151 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.

Other Title:

Encyclopedia of environmental issues : atmosphere and air pollution

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Discusses the many different types of air pollution and its various causes.

Contents:

""Table of Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Acid deposition and acid rain 1""; ""Aerosols 4""; ""Air-conditioning 6""; ""Air pollution 7""; ""Air-pollution policy 12""; ""Air Quality Index 18""; ""Airborne particulates 18""; ""Asbestos 20""; ""Atmospheric inversions 22""; ""Automobile emissions 23""; ""Bhopal disaster 25""; ""Bicycles 27""; ""Biogeochemical cycles 29""; ""Black lung 30""; ""Black Wednesday 31""; ""Carbon cycle 32""; ""Carbon dioxide 34""; ""Carbon dioxide air capture 35""; ""Carbon monoxide 36""; ""Carcinogens 37""; ""Cash for Clunkers 38""; ""Catalytic converters 39""

""Center for Health, Environment, and Justice 40""""Chicago Climate Exchange 40""; ""Chlorofluorocarbons 41""; ""Clean Air Act and amendments 42""; ""Climate change and human health 47""; ""Climate models 48""; ""Climatology 49""; ""Coal ash storage 51""; ""Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution 52""; ""Detoxification 53""; ""Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane 55""; ""Diquat 59""; ""Donora, Pennsylvania, temperature inversion 60""; ""Dust Bowl 61""; ""El Niño and La Niña 63""; ""Europe 66""; ""Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 70""; ""Freon 70""

""Global warming 71""""Green buildings 74""; ""Greenhouse effect 76""; ""Greenhouse gases 79""; ""Hazardous and toxic substance regulation 81""; ""Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings 84""; ""Incineration of waste products 86""; ""Indoor air pollution 88""; ""Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 89""; ""Krakatoa eruption 90""; ""Kyoto Protocol 92""; ""London smog disaster 94""; ""Malathion 95""; ""Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency 96""; ""Medfly spraying 97""; ""Methane 98""; ""Molina, Mario 100""; ""Montreal Protocol 100""; ""Mount Tambora eruption 102""

""National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 103""""Nitrogen oxides 104""; ""Noise pollution 106""; ""North American Free Trade Agreement 107""; ""Odor pollution 109""; ""Ozone layer 111""; ""Pandemics 114""; ""Pesticides and herbicides 117""; ""Polluter pays principle 119""; ""Radioactive pollution and fallout 120""; ""Radon 123""; ""Rowland, Frank Sherwood 124""; ""Secondhand smoke 125""; ""Silver Bay, Minnesota, asbestos releases 127""; ""Smog 128""; ""Solar radiation management 130""; ""Space debris 132""; ""Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 135""

""Sudbury, Ontario, emissions 136""""Sulfur oxides 136""; ""Thermal pollution 138""; ""Thermohaline circulation 139""; ""Volatile organic compounds 141""; ""Windscale radiation release 142""; ""Yokkaichi, Japan, emissions 143""; ""Bibliography 144""; ""CATEGORY INDEX""; ""INDEX""

Notes:

Contains selected essays from Encyclopedia of environmental issues.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contains:

Encyclopedia of environmental issues. Selections. 2011.

ISBN:

9786613279217

9781283279215

1283279215

9781587659218

1587659212

OCLC:

767828366