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Understanding environmental pollution

Title
Understanding environmental pollution / Marquita K. Hill.
Author
Hill, Marquita K. (Marquita Kaya)
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Description
xvi, 585 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
Starting with the definition of pollution and how pollutants behave, this text progresses to covering air and water pollution basics, pollution and global change, solid waste, and pollution in the home.
Subject
  • Pollution
  • Pollutants
  • Environmental quality
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Environmental Pollutants
  • pollutants
  • Contaminación
  • Contaminantes
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Understanding pollution -- Reducing risk, reducing pollution -- Chemical toxicity -- Chemical exposures and risk assessment -- Air pollution -- Acid deposition -- Global climate change -- Stratospheric ozone depletion -- Water pollution -- Drinking water pollution -- Solid waste -- Hazardous waste -- Energy -- Persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic -- Metals -- Pesticides -- Pollution at home -- Zero waste, zero emissions -- Chemistry: some basic concepts.
ISBN
  • 9780521518666
  • 0521518660
  • 9780521736695
  • 0521736692
LCCN
2010483825
OCLC
  • ocn499073785
  • 499073785
  • SCSB-9217858
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library