Environmental Contaminants: Assessment and ControlEnvironmental 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.
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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 |
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