Balanced coverage of all the major categories of environmental pollution, with coverage of current topics such as climate change and ozone depletion, risk assessment, indoor air quality, source-reduction and recycling, and groundwater contamination.
1. Mass and Energy Transfer. 2. Environmental Chemistry. 3. Mathematics for Growth. 4. Risk Assessment. 5. Water Pollution. 6. Water Quality Control. 7. Air Pollution. 8. Global Atmospheric Change. 9. Solid Waste Management and Resource Recovery. Useful Conversion Factors
• Risk Assessment (Chapter 4) - separated from hazardous substance legislation and is complete chapter in itself • Explores urgent environmental issues that have become the focus of much of the environmental attention in recent years - Global Climate Change - Risk Assessment - Stratospheric Ozone Depletion - Greenhouse effect - Indoor air quality - Groundwater contamination - Acid Deposition - Hazardous Waste • Numerous examples of each quantitative concept - Worked examples in each quantitative section • Numerous problems at the end of each chapter • Chapter covering Solid Waste Management and Resource Recovery - This chapter focuses on pollution prevention and product stewardship. • Expanded coverage of water resources and Groundwater remediation - including challenges posed by subsurface contamination of nonaqueous-phase liquids. • Covers the treatment of hazardous wastes and descriptions of the key pieces of environmental legislation that regulate hazardous substances.