Ebook: Soil and Water Contamination, 2nd Edition

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION PART I AN INTRODUCTION TO SOIL AND WATER CONTAMINATION 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 Historical perspective 1.2 Environmental pollution 1.3 Environmental pollutants 1.3.1 Classification of pollutants 1.3.2 Background concentrations 1.3.3 Anthropogenic sources 1.4 Ecological impacts 1.5 Spatial and temporal variability and the concept of scale 1.6 Outline and rationale of this book Exercises2 BASIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Units of analysis 2.3 Activity 2.4 Background thermodynamics 2.5 Phases and phase transitions 2.5. Read more...