Environmental Contaminants: Assessment and Control

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Academic Press, Jul 23, 2004 - Business & Economics - 801 pages
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.

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Contents

Fundamentals of Environmental Science and Engineering
63
Contaminant Risk
433
Interventions to Address Environmental Contamination
531
Glossary of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Terminology
669
Information Needed to Prepare Environmental Impact Statements
715
Safe Drinking Water Act Contaminants and Maximum Contaminant Levels
725
Toxic Compounds Listed in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments
747
Physical Constants
753
Universal Constants
757
Constants Frequently Applied in the Physical Sciences
759
Periodic Table of Elements
761
Minimum Risk Levels for Chemicals
763
Physical Contaminants
775
Index
789
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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.