Sovremennye ekologo-khimicheskie issledovaniya provotsiruyut poyavlenie khimiko-ekologicheskikh terminov i opredeleniy. Voznikayut novye terminy, ne sushchestvovavshie ranee, a prezhnie terminy rassmatrivayutsya v novom ponimanii. Vplot' do nastoyashchego vremeni izdaniya po ekologicheskoy khimii i khimicheskoy ekologii ves'ma ogranicheny i ne sushchestvuet do sikh por spravochnogo materiala i slovarey, kotorye ogranichivalis' by rassmotreniem terminov i opredeleniy, svyazannykh s khimiey i ekologiey odnovremenno. Dannyy slovar' mozhet pomoch' spetsialistu reshat' nauchnye i prakticheskie zadachi v etoy oblasti issledovaniya, orientirovat'sya pri rabote s nauchnoy literaturoy, napisanii statey i izuchenii ekologicheskikh problem