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Environmental Contaminants Assessment and Control

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ISBN-10: 0127100571

ISBN-13: 9780127100579

Edition: 2004

Authors: Daniel Vallero

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Description:

A tool for environmentalists to produce technically sound and reproducible scientific evidence, this text identifies ways to clean up environmental problems in air, water, soil, sediment and living systems.
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Book details

List price: $117.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date: 7/23/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 832
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.234
Language: English

Prologue : the challenge
An environmental policy primer
Scientific and engineering perspectives of environmental contaminants
Fundamentals of environmental science and engineering
Fundamentals of environmental physics
Applied contaminant physics : fluid properties
Environmental equilibrium, partitioning, and balances
Movement of contaminants in the environment
Fundamentals of environmental chemistry
Chemical reactions in the environment
Biological principles of environmental contamination
Contaminant risk
Contaminant hazards
Contaminant exposure and risk calculations
Interventions to address environmental contamination
Contaminant sampling and analysis
Intervention : managing the risks of environmental contamination
Environmental decisions and professionalism
Epilogue : benzene metabolism revisited
Glossary of environmental sciences and engineering terminology
Information needed to prepare environmental impact statements
Safe Drinking Water Act contaminants and maximum contaminant levels
Toxic compounds listed in the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments
Physical constants
Universal constants
Constants frequently applied in the physical sciences
Periodic table of elements
Minimum risk levels for chemicals
Physical contaminants