Unraveling Environmental Disasters

Herausgegeben:Vallero, Daniel A.; Letcher, Trevor

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Unraveling Environmental Disasters provides scientific explanations of the most threatening current and future environmental disasters, including an analysis of ways that the disaster could have been prevented and how the risk of similar disasters can be minimized in the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier / Elsevier Books
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2011-0-06684-X
• Seitenzahl: 530
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 193mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1304g
• ISBN-13: 9780123970268
• ISBN-10: 0123970261
• Artikelnr.: 36266823

Autorenporträt

Professor Daniel A. Vallero is an internationally recognized author and expert in environmental science and engineering. He has devoted decades to conducting research, teaching, and mentoring future scientists and engineers. He is currently developing tools and models to predict potential exposures to chemicals in consumer products. He is a full adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. He has authored 20 environmental textbooks, with the most recent addressing the importance of physical principles in environmental science and engineering. His books have addressed all environmental compartments and media within the earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Failures 2. Science 3. Explosions 4. Plumes 5. Leaks 6. Spills 7. Fires 8. Climate 9. Nature 10. Minerals 11. Recalcitrance 12. Radiation 13. Invasions 14. Products 15. Unsustainability 16. Society 17. Future Glossary of Terms

Rezensionen

"This important, clearly written, well-organized book addresses a confluence of significant global issues and brings them into focus. Vallero.and Letcher.examine engineering failures within the context of generating environmental disasters.The book addresses related issues of sustainability, anthropogenic global warming, pesticide use and its impact on the food chain, vinyl chloride production, etc.Summing Up: Essential." --CHOICE Reviews Online, January 2014