Environmental contaminants assessment and control
This book serves as a tool for environmental professionals to produce technically sound and reproducible scientific evidence. It identifies ways to clean up environmental problems in air, water, soil, sediment and living systems. Ethical issues, environmental management, and professionalism, and env...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Amsterdam Boston
Elsevier Academic Press
2004
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Part I: An Environmental Policy Primer:
- 1.Scientific and Engineering Perspectives of Environmental Contaminants
- Part II: Fundamentals of Environmental Science and Engineering
- 2. Fundamentals of Environmental Physics
- 3. Applied Contaminant Physics: Fluid Properties
- 4. Environmental Equilibrium, Partitioning, and Balances
- 5. Movement of Contaminants in the Environment
- 6. Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry
- 7. Chemical Reactions in the Environment
- 8. Biological Principles of Environmental Contamination
- Part III: Contaminant Risk
- 9. Contaminant Hazards
- 10. Contaminant Exposure and Risk Calculations
- Part IV: Interventions to Address Environmental Contamination
- 11. Contaminant Sampling and Analysis
- 12. Intervention: Managing the Risks of Environmental Contamination
- 13. Environmental Decisions and Professionalism
- 14. Epilogue: Benzene Metabolism Revisited
- Glossary of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Terminology; Appendices; Index
