Environmental Contaminants

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.

Part I: An Environmental Policy Primer:1.Scientific and Engineering Perspectives of Environmental ContaminantsPart II: Fundamentals of Environmental Science and Engineering2. Fundamentals of Environmental Physics3. Applied Contaminant Physics: Fluid Properties4. Environmental Equilibrium, Partitioning, and Balances5. Movement of Contaminants in the Environment6. Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry7. Chemical Reactions in the Environment8. Biological Principles of Environmental ContaminationPart III: Contaminant Risk9. Contaminant Hazards10. Contaminant Exposure and Risk CalculationsPart IV: Interventions to Address Environmental Contamination11. Contaminant Sampling and Analysis12. Intervention: Managing the Risks of Environmental Contamination13. Environmental Decisions and Professionalism14. Epilogue: Benzene Metabolism RevisitedGlossary of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Terminology; Appendices; Index