Principles of Environmental Science and Technology
Elsevier (Publisher)
Published on 10. October 2011
515 pages
978-0-08-087473-9 (ISBN)
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- Front Cover
- Principles of Environmental Science and Technology
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
- 1.1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE - AN INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELD
- 1.2 RELATION BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, MANAGEMENT, ECOLOGY AND MODELLING
- 1.3 LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION
- 1.4 THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
- 1.5 FOCUS ON PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
- 1.6 PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
- PART A: PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
- CHAPTER 2. MASS CONSERVATION
- 2.1 EVERYTHING MUST GO SOMEWHERE
- 2.2 THRESHOLD LEVELS
- 2.3 BASIC CONCEPTS OF MASS BALANCES
- 2.4 PRINCIPLES OF ECOTOXICOLOGY
- 2.5 LIFE CONDITIONS
- 2.6 THE GLOBAL ELEMENT CYCLES
- 2.7 OXYGEN BALANCE OF A RIVER
- 2.8 THE EUTROPHICATION PROBLEM
- 2.9 MASS CONSERVATION IN A FOOD CHAIN
- 2.10 MASS CONSERVATION IN A SOCIETY
- 2.11 THE HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE
- 2.12 PLUME DISPERSION
- CHAPTER 3. PRINCIPLES OF ENERGY BEHAVIOUR APPLIED TO ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
- 3.1 FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS RELATED TO ENERGY
- 3.2 ENERGY USE AND ENERGY RESOURCES
- 3.3 PRODUCTIVITY
- 3.4 ENERGY IN ECOSYSTEMS
- 3.5 ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND THE GLOBAL ENERGY BALANCE
- 3.6 ENERGY BUDGETS OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS
- CHAPTER 4. ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS
- 4.1 ECOSYSTEMS CHARACTERISTICS
- 4.2 ADAPTATION
- 4.3 GROWTH AND SELF-REGULATION
- 4.4 INTERACTION BETWEEN TWO OR MORE SPECIES
- 4.5 ORGANIZATION OF ECOSYSTEMS
- 4.6 DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF THE ECOSYSTEM
- 4.7 pH-BUFFERING CAPACITY IN ECOSYSTEMS
- 4.8 OTHER BUFFERING EFFECTS IN ECOSYSTENS
- 4.9 THE ECOSPHERE
- CHAPTER 5. AN OVERVIEW OF THE MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS OF TODAY
- 5.1 APPLICATION OF PRINCIPLES TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
- 5.2 AIR POLLUTION
- 5.3 PESTICIDES, AND OTHER TOXIC COMPOUNDS
- 5.4 THE PROBLEM OF HEAVY METALS
- 5.5 WATER POLLUTION PROBLEMS
- 5.6 NOISE POLLUTION
- 5.7 SOLID WASTE POLLUTION
- 5.8 FOOD ADDITIVES
- 5.9 ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
- PART B: PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
- CHAPTER 6. WATER AND WASTE WATER PROBLEMS
- 6.1 INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEMS OF WATER AND WASTE WATER
- 6.2 REDUCTION OF THE BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND
- 6.3 NUTRIENT REMOVAL
- 6.4 REMOVAL OF TOXIC ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
- 6.5 REMOVAL OF (HEAVY) METALS
- 6.6 WATER RESOURCES
- CHAPTER 7. THE SOLID WASTE PROBLEMS
- 7.1 SOURCES, MANAGEMENT AND METHODS
- 7.2 TREATMENT OF SLUDGE
- 7.3 DOMESTIC GARBAGE
- 7.4 INDUSTRIAL, MINING AND HOSPITAL WASTE
- CHAPTER 8. AIR POLLUTION PROBLEMS
- 8.1 THE PROBLEMS OF AIR POLLUTION - AN OVERVIEW
- 8.2 PARTICULATE POLLUTION
- 8.3 THE AIR POLLUTION PROBLEMS OF CARBON DIOXIDE, CARBON HYDRIDES AND CARBON MONOXIDE
- 8.4 THE AIR POLLUTION PROBLEM OF SULPHUR DIOXIDE
- 8.5 THE AIR POLLUTION PROBLEM OF NITROGENOUS GASES
- 8.6 INDUSTRIAL AIR POLLUTION
- CHAPTER 9. EXAMINATION OF POLLUTION
- 9.1 INTRODUCTION
- 9.2 EXAMINATION OF WATER AND WASTE WATER
- 9.3 EXAMINATION OF SOLIDS
- 9.4 EXAMINATION OF AIR POLLUTION
- APPENDIXES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
