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"The book is a compendium for all involved directly or indirectly in decision making about air pullution control - regulatory or engineering. Nowhere will the non-specialist find a more concise, technically correct answer to tantalizing problems, such as acidic deposition, the cost of abatement, effects (real, not imaginary) or uncertainties which still subsist."
- THE SCIENCE OF TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (1985) "An excellent and multidisciplinary overview of the many varied aspects related to air pollution...An interesting publication particularly for those not being experts and wanting to know more about air pollution". - WATER, ANR AND SOIL POLLUTION (1985)
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"The book is a compendium for all involved directly or indirectly in decision making about air pullution control - regulatory or engineering. Nowhere will the non-specialist find a more concise, technically correct answer to tantalizing problems, such as acidic deposition, the cost of abatement, effects (real, not imaginary) or uncertainties which still subsist."
- THE SCIENCE OF TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (1985) "An excellent and multidisciplinary overview of the many varied aspects related to air pollution...An interesting publication particularly for those not being experts and wanting to know more about air pollution". - WATER, ANR AND SOIL POLLUTION (1985)
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"...provides a thorough background to pollution, from global issues to personal pollution in the home...an excellent introduction to the subject, providing the right information to enable students to evaluate environmental problems for themselves." Environmental Assessment Magazine
Product Description
Introducing pollution issues to students and others with little scientific background, this new edition of a well-received textbook has been completely revised and updated. Starting with the definition of pollution and how pollutants behave, it progresses to covering air and water pollution basics, pollution and global change, solid waste, and pollution in the home. First Edition Hb (1997):
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Complex environmental problems are often reduced to an inappropriate level of simplicity. While this book does not seek to present a comprehensive scientific and technical coverage of all aspects of the subject matter, it makes the issues, ideas, and language of environmental engineering accessible and understandable to the nontechnical reader.
Improvements introduced in the fourth edition include a complete rewrite of the chapters dealing with risk assessment and ethics, the introduction of new theories of radiation damage, inclusion of environmental disasters like Chernobyl and Bhopal, and general updating of all the content, specifically that on radioactive waste.
Since this book was first published in 1972, several generations of students have become environmentally aware and conscious of their responsibilities to the planet earth. Many of these environmental pioneers are now teaching in colleges and universities, and have in their classes students with the same sense of dedication and resolve that they themselves brought to the discipline. In those days, it was sometimes difficult to explain what indeed environmental science or engineering was, and why the development of these fields was so important to the future of the earth and to human civilization. Today there is no question that the human species has the capability of destroying its collective home, and that we have indeed taken major steps toward doing exactly that.
And yet, while, a lot has changed in a generation, much has not. We still have air pollution; we still contaminate our water supplies; we still dispose of hazardous materials improperly; we still destroy natural habitats as if no other species mattered. And worst of all, we still continue to populate the earth at an alarming rate. There is still a need for this book, and for the college and university courses that use it as a text, and perhaps this need is more acute now than it was several decades ago.
Although the battle to preserve the environment is still raging, some of the rules have changed. We now must take into account risk to humans, and be able to manipulate concepts of risk management. With increasing population, and fewer alternatives to waste disposal, this problem is intensified. Environmental laws have changed, and will no doubt continue to evolve. Attitudes toward the environment are often couched in what has become known as the environmental ethic. Finally, the environmental movement has become powerful politically, and environmentalism can be made to serve a political agenda.
In revising this book, we have attempted to incorporate the evolving nature of environmental sciences and engineering by adding chapters as necessary and eliminating material that is less germane to today's students. We have nevertheless maintained the essential feature of this book -- to package the more important aspects of environmental engineering science and technology in an organized manner and present this mainly technical material to a nonengineering audience.
This book has been used as a text in courses which require no prerequisites, although a high school knowledge of chemistry is important. A knowledge of college level algebra is also useful, but calculus is not required for the understanding of the technical and scientific concepts.
We do not intend for this book to be scientifically and technically complete. In fact, many complex environmental problems have been simplified to the threshold of pain for many engineers and scientists. Our objective, however, is not to impress nontechnical students with the rigors and complexities of pollution control technology but rather to make some of the language and ideas of environmental engineering and science more understandable.
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An introduction to the more important aspects of environmental science and technology.
Well organized and suitable for both the technical and non-technical reader.
Ideal for the student taking courses in this field who does not have an extensive engineering, mathematical, or environmental background.
Book Info
The latest edition of an introduction to the more important aspects of environmental science & technology, presented in an organized manner and suitable for nontechnical and technical readers alike. Paper. DLC: Environmental engineering.
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Editorial Reviews
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"....It now has a new lease on life with Academic Press, with a number of innovations, including problem sets following each chapter, a timely quotation at the start of each chapter, and extensive new chapters on petrochemicals and polymers that remedy the one major deficiency of the first edition, which did not cover these topics at all...I recommend it highly...."
--CANADIAN CHEMICAL NEWS
"....the author has succeeded admirably in compiling a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of the various processes. The handbook has marshalled an impressive amount of information on the selected process sectors, presented in a clear and concise manner, with the discussion on production technologies supported by a lucid explanation of the underlying chemistry and reaction routes. The style and content of the handbook will appeal as a graduate text in industrial chemistry and engineering courses...."
--Gev Eduljee, Chemistry in Britain
"... for environmental consultants and those engaged as expert witnesses on industrially related pollution problems, the information in this book will prove invaluable."
--CHEMISTRY & INDUSTRY, Issue:10, May 17, 1999.
"A valuable handbook providing user friendly access to details of the environmental impact of industrial chemical processes."
--WASTE PLANNING, A MINERAL PLANNING PUBLICATION, Vol.30, March, 1999.
Review
"....It now has a new lease on life with Academic Press, with a number of innovations, including problem sets following each chapter, a timely quotation at the start of each chapter, and extensive new chapters on petrochemicals and polymers that remedy the one major deficiency of the first edition, which did not cover these topics at all...I recommend it highly...."
--CANADIAN CHEMICAL NEWS
"....the author has succeeded admirably in compiling a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of the various processes. The handbook has marshalled an impressive amount of information on the selected process sectors, presented in a clear and concise manner, with the discussion on production technologies supported by a lucid explanation of the underlying chemistry and reaction routes. The style and content of the handbook will appeal as a graduate text in industrial chemistry and engineering courses...."
--Gev Eduljee, Chemistry in Britain
"... for environmental consultants and those engaged as expert witnesses on industrially related pollution problems, the information in this book will prove invaluable."
--CHEMISTRY & INDUSTRY, Issue:10, May 17, 1999.
"A valuable handbook providing user friendly access to details of the environmental impact of industrial chemical processes."
--WASTE PLANNING, A MINERAL PLANNING PUBLICATION, Vol.30, March, 1999. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Indian Journal of Toxicology
"…covers a broad spectrum of pollution prevention…. "…recommended for those who are interested in pollution control and waste minimization programs."
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From the foreward... ...It is through the use of [this] text that the seed can be planted for future generations to develop the policies and priorities necessary to effectively deal with scientific and political issues associated with hazardous and radioactive waste management.
---Ron Bhada, Emeritus Director, and Jim Bickel, Associate Director, WERC, Las Cruces, New Mexico
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