Environmental Contaminants: Assessment and Control - Hardcover

Daniel A. Vallero

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0127100571 ISBN 13: 9780127100579

Publisher: Academic Press, 2004

Synopsis

Environmental Contaminants 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.

• 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.

About this title

About the Author

Professor Daniel A. Vallero is a renowned environmental scientist and engineer with four decades of experience. He has advised U.S. government agencies on critical issues like PBTs, climate change, acid rain, and chemical risks. At Duke University, he led the Engineering Ethics program and taught courses on air pollution, sustainable design, and ethics. Vallero has served on the National Academy of Engineering’s Online Ethics Committee and the National Institute of Engineering Ethics. An expert in emerging technologies, he focuses on societal, ethical, and public health challenges related to nanotechnology and environmental biotechnology. His work also encompasses emergency response and homeland security, making him a leading voice in environmental risk and ethics.

From the Back Cover

Environmental Contaminants will advance the reader’s understanding of the science, engineering and technology of environmental problem-solving and risk assessment through a series of real-life and theoretical questions, problems and exercises. The text serves as a tool for environmental professionals who must generate technically sound and reproducible scientific evidence, as well as others who simply need to know how environmental assessments are conducted and what the results mean. The book identifies ways to clean up environmental problems in air, water, soil, sediment and living systems. Ethical issues, environmental management, and environmental economic problems are woven throughout the text to provide contexts for decision making while assisting the reader in understanding and applying quantitative analysis to environmental problems.Environmental Contaminants sets the stage for the interdisciplinary nature of environmental science and engineering, providing an overview of environmental movements, and emphasizing the importance of a strong quantitative scientific foundation. Students, professionals, as well as interested members of the public will benefit from the juxtaposition of quantitative environmental science with methods for practical application. Notation and terms are introduced and defined within the context of the discussion of contaminant behavior, and are later defined in the glossary. Key features include:* 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.Companion Website http://www.elsevierdirect.com/companion.jsp?ISBN=9780127100579

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Real life solutions for practicing environmentalists.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0127100571
• ISBN 13: 9780127100579
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 832