Marquita K. Hill

Understanding Environmental Pollution

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1434g
• ISBN-13: 9781108423083
• ISBN-10: 1108423086
• Artikelnr.: 58502277

Autorenporträt

Marquita K. Hill holds a Ph.D. in comparative biochemistry from the University of California, Davis. She was assistant and then associate professor in the biochemistry department at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. Later, at the University of Maine's Department of Chemical Engineering, she conducted research funded by the US Department of Energy and the US Environmental Protection Agency. Then, after educating herself as an environmental scientist, she taught courses in environmental pollution, which led to the text Understanding Environmental Pollution. She was co-founder of the Green Campus Consortium of Maine, an organization working toward sustainable environmental management in Maine's higher-education institutions. For nine years she served on an advisory committee for International Paper's mill in Skowhegan, Maine. During those same years she was a visiting scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations and acronyms
1. Understanding pollution
2. Reducing pollution to reduce risk
3. Chemical toxicity
4. Chemical exposures and risk assessment
5. Ambient air pollution
6. Acid deposition
7. Global warming and ocean acidification
8. Energy and pollution
9. Stratospheric ozone depletion
10. Water pollution
11. Drinking water pollution
12. Solid waste
13. Hazardous waste
14. Persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemicals
15. Metals
16. Pesticides
17. Indoor air pollution
18. Zero waste, zero emissions
Appendix. Chemistry - basic concepts
Index.

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Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and acronyms; 1. Understanding pollution; 2. Reducing pollution to reduce risk; 3. Chemical toxicity; 4. Chemical exposures and risk assessment; 5. Ambient air pollution; 6. Acid deposition; 7. Global warming and ocean acidification; 8. Energy and pollution; 9. Stratospheric ozone depletion; 10. Water pollution; 11. Drinking water pollution; 12. Solid waste; 13. Hazardous waste; 14. Persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemicals; 15. Metals; 16. Pesticides; 17. Indoor air pollution; 18. Zero waste, zero emissions; Appendix. Chemistry - basic concepts; Index.

Rezensionen

Review of previous edition: 'This book, aimed mainly at students, provides a thorough background to pollution, from global issues to personal pollution in the home ... This book provides an excellent introduction to the subject, providing the right information to enable students to evaluate environmental problems for themselves.' Environmental Assessment Magazine