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1 online resource (xxxix, 801 pages) : illustrations |
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| Summary |
This book serves as a tool for environmental professionals to produce technically sound and reproducible scientific evidence. It identifies ways to clean up environmental problems in air, water, soil, sediment and living systems. Ethical issues, environmental management, and professionalism, and environmental economic problems are illustrated to assist the reader in understanding and applying quantitative analysis of environmental problems. Companion Website http://books.elsevier.com/companions/0127100571 *Real life solutions for practicing environmental professionals. *Example problems, sidebars, and case studies to illustrate ethical issues, environmental economic problems, and environmental management. *Explanation of scientific principles and concepts needed for risk assessment, waste management, contaminant transport, environmental hydrogeology, and environmental engineering & chemistry. *A fully supportive glossary, appendices and tables throughout the text contain physical, chemical and biological resources necessary for all environmental practitioners. |
| Contents |
Part I: An Environmental Policy Primer: -- 1. Scientific and Engineering Perspectives of Environmental Contaminants -- Part II: Fundamentals of Environmental Science and Engineering -- 2. Fundamentals of Environmental Physics -- 3. Applied Contaminant Physics: Fluid Properties -- 4. Environmental Equilibrium, Partitioning, and Balances -- 5. Movement of Contaminants in the Environment -- 6. Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry -- 7. Chemical Reactions in the Environment -- 8. Biological Principles of Environmental Contamination -- Part III: Contaminant Risk -- 9. Contaminant Hazards -- 10. Contaminant Exposure and Risk Calculations -- Part IV: Interventions to Address Environmental Contamination -- 11. Contaminant Sampling and Analysis -- 12. Intervention: Managing the Risks of Environmental Contamination -- 13. Environmental Decisions and Professionalism -- 14. Epilogue: Benzene Metabolism Revisited -- Glossary of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Terminology; Appendices; Index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Subject |
Environmental risk assessment.
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Environmental protection.
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Pollutants.
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Environmental monitoring.
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Pollution.
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Environmental Pollutants |
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Environmental Monitoring |
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Environmental Pollution |
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Polluants.
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Environnement -- Surveillance.
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Pollution.
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Environnement -- Évaluation du risque.
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Environnement -- Protection.
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environmental protection.
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pollutants.
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chemical pollution.
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pollution.
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NATURE -- Natural Resources.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business.
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Pollution
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Pollutants
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Environmental monitoring
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Environmental protection
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Environmental risk assessment
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Milieuverontreiniging.
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Gevaarlijke stoffen.
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Risicoanalyse.
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dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vallero, Daniel A. Environmental contaminants. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, 2004 0127100571 9780127100579 (DLC) 2004559070 (OCoLC)56363496 |
| ISBN |
9780127100579 |
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0127100571 |
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9780080470351 (electronic bk.) |
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0080470351 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000051556662 |
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CHNEW 001006504 |
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DEBBG BV039830996 |
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DEBBG BV042315852 |
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DEBBG BV043044345 |
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DEBBG BV044122845 |
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DEBSZ 367759659 |
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DEBSZ 422220361 |
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DEBSZ 430376766 |
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DEBSZ 449089924 |
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NLGGC 306369834 |
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NZ1 12435063 |
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NZ1 14540112 |
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