Air Quality

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Ozone-destroying chemicals, greenhouse gases, and dangerous airborne substances that were once thought to be benign are the most urgent issues facing air pollution control experts. Students need a thorough, updated reference that explores these current trends while also covering the fundamental concepts of this emerging discipline. A new revision of a bestseller, Air Quality, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive overview air quality issues, including a better understanding of atmospheric chemistry, the effects of pollution on public health and the environment, and the technology and regulatory practices used to achieve air quality goals. New sections cover toxicological principles and risk assessment. The book also contains revised discussions on public policy concerns, with a focus on air quality standards for ozone depletion and global warming, and the health effects of particulate air pollutants. This edition continues to serve as a very readable text for advanced level undergraduate and early graduate study in environmental science, environmental management, and in programs related to the study of public health, industrial hygiene, and pollution control.

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Good Air Quality Primer, Seconded.......2007-08-09

The review I was going to write is almost exactly like the first review posted giving it 4 stars, so I will just second everything mentioned. Good air quality primer for the environmental professional, but if you are already an air quality scientist or specialist, you may find it a little basic. Excellent overall quality and information on all the air quality issues affecting North America today.

Good Air Quality Primer.......2000-11-07

This book provides a good foundation in air quality issues bringing together the basic meteorology, chemistry, biology, and political/regulatory information needed to understand the field. The book assumes some basic science background but Godish presents technical information clearly enough for environmental managers and nontechnical professionals to get a basic understanding of air quality issues. Godish could make the book more accessable to introductory students by spending more time defining and explaining some of the technical terminology in the book. As it is, some students may have to spend more time with the dictionary than they are used to. Air quality professionals will find this book a good refresher but those looking for a technically advanced book should look elsewhere. The treatment of regulatory issues emphasizes the US. Non-americans will still benefit from the bulk of the book. For an introductory student looking for a start in the field, I would give the book 4 stars, for an environmental manager looking to gain a better understanding of air quality or an air quality professional looking for a good refresher, I would give the book five stars, for an air quality professional looking for a technical reference, I would give the book 2 to 3 stars.

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics: From Air Pollution to Climate Change

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Thoroughly restructured and updated with new findings and new features

The Second Edition of this internationally acclaimed text presents the latest developments in atmospheric science. It continues to be the premier text for both a rigorous and a complete treatment of the chemistry of the atmosphere, covering such pivotal topics as:
* Chemistry of the stratosphere and troposphere
* Formation, growth, dynamics, and properties of aerosols
* Meteorology of air pollution
* Transport, diffusion, and removal of species in the atmosphere
* Formation and chemistry of clouds
* Interaction of atmospheric chemistry and climate
* Radiative and climatic effects of gases and particles
* Formulation of mathematical chemical/transport models of the atmosphere

All chapters develop results based on fundamental principles, enabling the reader to build a solid understanding of the science underlying atmospheric processes. Among the new material are three new chapters: Atmospheric Radiation and Photochemistry, General Circulation of the Atmosphere, and Global Cycles. In addition, the chapters Stratospheric Chemistry, Tropospheric Chemistry, and Organic Atmospheric Aerosols have been rewritten to reflect the latest findings.

Readers familiar with the First Edition will discover a text with new structures and new features that greatly aid learning. Many examples are set off in the text to help readers work through the application of concepts. Advanced material has been moved to appendices. Finally, many new problems, coded by degree of difficulty, have been added. A solutions manual is available.

Thoroughly updated and restructured, the Second Edition of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics is an ideal textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a reference for researchers in environmental engineering, meteorology, chemistry, and the atmospheric sciences.

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and science of major air pollution issues. It begins with an introduction to the basic atmospheric chemistry and the history of discovery of chemicals in the atmosphere, and then moves on to a discussion of the evolution of the earth's atmosphere, and the structure and composition of the present-day atmosphere. It also offers a comprehensive and accessible discussion of the five major atmospheric pollution topics: urban outdoor air pollution, indoor air pollution, acid deposition, stratospheric ozone reduction, and global climate change.

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Excellent Primer and Reference on Air Pollution.......2007-08-09

Atmospheric Pollution is an excellent primer and reference on air pollution and air quality issues facing the world today. Written essentially as a textbook, nevertheless, it is highly readable and a good, basic, factual overview of the pollutants, pollutant processes, laws and regulations, and current issues in air quality protection.

Air Quality In The Mexico Megacity: An Integrated Assessment (Alliance for Global Sustainability Series, 2)

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Air Quality In The Mexico Megacity: An Integrated Assessment (Alliance for Global Sustainability Series, 2)
Luisa T., Ed. Molina
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The quality of the air we breathe is fundamental to the quality of life for the growing millions of people living in the world's burgeoning megacities. In this book, experts in atmospheric sciences, human health, economics, social and political sciences contribute to an integrated assessment of the complex elements needed to structure air quality policy in the 21st century. The analysis is developed through a case study of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area - one of the world's largest megacities in which air pollution grew unchecked for decades. The international research team is led by Luisa T. and Mario J. Molina, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. Improvements in Mexico City's air quality in the last decade testifies to the power of determined and enlightened policy making, and throws into relief the tough problems that remain to be solved.
The volume's first six chapters, including the contributions of over 50 distinguished scholars from Mexico and the US, outline the fundamental areas of knowledge policy makers must accommodate. The message is that only good science and well-chosen technologies can direct the way to corrective regulatory measures; but without strong commitment from government, no amount of science or technology can help.
In presenting what is known about the causes and consequences of air pollution in this megacity, the authors highlight what needs to be done. Many key areas of measurement and methodology for consistently and accurately assessing air quality and its effects still require refinement.
The volume concludes with an extensive list of policy recommendations, emphasizing the value of integrated assessment and a long-term perspective. Intended for the guidance of policy makers in the Mexico Megacity, these recommendations form a provocative challenge to the leadership of other megacities with looming air pollution issues.
While each city - its problems, resources, and perspectives - is unique, the need for an integrated assessment of complex environmental problems is the same. The case study presented in this book demonstrates ways to work toward the comprehensive knowledge needed to build robust policy.

The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming

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Climatologist extraordinaire Patrick J. Michaels says it is.

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The truth may be inconvenient........2007-03-29

In the last few months it was announced on the news that there was a consensus of scientists about the reality of human effected climate change and because of this consensus there was a growing imperative for the need to act. Not too long after president Bush announced in his state of the union address some measures which he argued would help in the fight against global warming. More recently there has been much publicity to the breakup of the Arctic Ice cap and speculation about the ability to sail once again through a North West Passage while at the other pole scientists have discovered lakes beneath the artic ice which have a significant effect on that ecosystem. This morning on the weather channel it was noted that yesterday the temperature high in West Caldwell, New Jersey, was the highest since 1947.

For me this last remark is significant as I have yet to hear of any claims that the earth has been steadily warming since 1947 yet the temperature in that year was over 70 degrees F.

What is the relevance of all this to this book you may ask? A good question. Being of English origin it is often said that the talking point is always the weather. Whilst this may not be true, I for one have long found the subject interesting. However, my degrees are in economics, social science and education so I cannot claim any expertise in this area. However, I am somewhat sceptical of many of the claims made about global warming and environmental change mainly due to the reliability of evidence relating to centuries past. I recall the predictions made in the 1990's of the disastrous winds which would cause havoc at the turn of the century yet never happened as well as the claims made for population growth in the 1960's which were proved false. I also believe that there is a lot of money to be made from the scaremongering about global warming by those who argue the most passionately for it. It is also true that even if countries like the US go for smaller more fuel efficient cars, then the wealthy and the powerful in our society will still be able to drive their relative gas guzzlers with impunity.

This book is an asset to the layman trying to make sense about the true nature of climatic change. It shows that the consensus is more of a fabrication than reality because of the vested interests of those who formed the consensus to begin with. The Satanic Gases addresses many areas of concern and shows that the evidence upon which many conclusions are based is flawed or the reasoning is somewhat suspect.

The major deficiency in the book lies in the ability or otherwise of the average reader to assess the quality of the information contained therein. I also consider that a second edition is long overdue which could incorporate more current information.

The book is recommended by a number of eminent persons but that should not be a reason for merely accepting it's premises and arguements. For my own part I feel that it is required of us as active citizens to be sceptical of expensive and huge government programmes and to ask questions of our elected officials to help us truly understand the nature of them.

It is my belief that the jury is still out on this issue and while that does not excuse inaction for the future, it is certainly our duty to ask that these programmes are really based on sound science and unassailable evidence.

Very good, and a lot less conservative than most think.......2007-02-23

Many times there is the warning through the book: do not criticize global warming advocates simply because some climate models have flaws. Such is petty and nonproductive behavior, and productive thought and research are badly needed. Right now we need to keep improving climate and Earth models for better accuracy and predictablility. Also, the most important idea from this book is to keep asking the questions "how" and "how much," especially the second (p60). These approaches are not conservative, but rather what real scientists strive to do every day. The book title sounds combative, and likely turns off many on the Left, who often seem to prefer hearing bad news only.

The authors claim that hurricane wind speeds actually decreased as ocean temperature rose over the last century. This seems surprising, and bears checking out with other published numbers-based results. The CO2 portion of the book is quite well done, but the small part about toxicity levels can be safely ignored. On the other hand, the chapter "Greening the Planet" is well worth reading a second time. CO2, they remind us, is not a pollutant, but rather a gaseous fertilizer for plant life. It is possible, though, to argue that ANY chemical is a pollutant if present in great enough quantity, if one wishes to split hairs.

The last chapter, as with just about all climate change books, is not particularly strong. Most last-chapters are hand wringers, but Satanic Gases is at least not one of them. The authors advocate swapping the existing biased federal funding of research and development for private funding, and this is a forward thought. A minor observation: for some reason, critics keep badmouthing the authors' statement about ozone breaking down to the hydroxyl radical. Clearly, this criticism is mean-spirited, as technical people must know very well that the hydroxyl radical is tangled in the intermediate steps of the chemical change, although the authors did make a bad choice of prepositions. Their high school English teachers would be tsk-tsk'ing!

Excellent book.......2007-02-20

Although a few years old, the author's points are still totally pertinent to the ongoing debate on global warming. I appreciated his review of a wide range of articles across the ten or twelve scientific areas that comprise the focus of climate change. I found his general contention compelling - that some people - and the ICPP in particular - are overstating the degree of change likely due to human-induced greenhouse emissions. When you start looking at the details of the debate, such as the specifics of the GCMs (general circulation models), what their limitations actually are, and what the datasets show for the various temperature, precipitation, soil moisture, storm frequencies and strengths (hurricane and tornado), and the trends that are claimed to appear, you find a great deal of noise. That is probably the single thing that would cool people's attitudes if they bothered to actually find out what the research indicates. There just aren't the striking, clear-cut changes that lead to certainty in decision making with human activity as the primary cause of all the problems, both predicted and speculated. It does indicate that there are some changes, but in other areas there is no discernable change - and in general, there is nothing like for example, Al Gore indicates. The conclusion one will likely come to after a close reading of the literature is that the strong proponents of human-induced climate change are taking some substantial leaps of faith. In fact, I strongly recommend interested people first read Gore's book "Inconvenient Truth" and then read Michaels' book(s). That makes the situation quite clear. Gore comes off as somebody completely certain of his view, never mentioning alternative interpretations or any of the limitations that exist in the methods, measures, analyses, or literature. Michaels comes off as an interested scientist who is a bit frustrated at Gore's blinders and adamant assertions, and is deeply interested in the details of the science. For understanding the actual data and our situation on the world, the latter is better.

In Gore's case, he asserts it is a fact that massive changes will take place, but Michaels shows quite convincingly, that these assertions are not supported by the data. In my own following of the literature for the last 25 years (coming out of my own research in solar physics, ionospheric physics, and solar-terrestrial paleoclimatology, and also psychology), I think it is safe to say that most of the particular things Gore says have been suggested in some form in some place in the literature, but the problem comes because he pulls them altogether into an oveall assertion of one gigantic and horrific "fact". In doing this, he ignores all limitations in measurement, and all problems of interpretation. To me, he illustrates why a politician should never think he is a scientist - because his political views structure the data, his entire logic is political and so the integrity of the science isn't important, what is important is his use of it for his political purposes. As a personal opinion, it seems to me Gore's entire approach is messianic, which is the opposite of what science should be. Reading this book and Michaels' other books will be greatly informative for anybody who wants to take the time to understand the basis for climate change, and whether or to what degree it is related to human activity. It isn't a simple thing, even though Gore asserts it is. It has become profoundly politically biased, which is a really awful result for the science, because it makes doing and interpreting science into a mindfield of other people's agendas. To me, this is the worst legacy of Gore's posturing. He certainly can say whatever he wants, but he has melded an ostensibly scientific veneer to his own highly biased political beliefs, and then asserted they are received facts about the world and that everybody else should shut up. However, in contrast Michaels does a good job of showing how scientists actually come to their conclusions.

I should add that Michaels takes the reasonable position that we are affecting the climate, that increasing the CO2, methane and other greenhouse gas concentrations does have an effect, but he systematically evaluates the degree of that effect so readers will have a better chance to understand the difficulty of making huge generalizations. Again, reading Gore's book and then Michaels' books will underscore the difference.

In sum: Michaels suggests the changes are not likely catastrophic; that is an extreme interpretation, but there are some effects and it is likely that we can and will live by minimal adaptation. Michaels seems exceptionally even-handed, and I fail to see anywhere in his book the kind of stridency that global-warming proponents claim. I think they do the so-called "skeptics" and the science a huge disservice by their blanket assertions that if somebody somewhere sometime ever was a paid consultant of industry or associated with some convervative cause, then he is impossibly biased and everything he says is discredited. That simply isn't true. It is a political statement, a rhetorical position that allows you to dismiss everybody who disagrees with one side. That isn't a good idea for understanding something complex because the answers do not ever all come from one side. This probably is an infiltration of the scientific debate by a politica agenda, which is extremely unfortunate for everybody. I prefer to take ideas on their merits regardless of their source. Even a conniving consultant can be correct, and also, even a politician who wants to be modern eco-Messiah can be correct. So a blanket dismissal means you'll never know whether they are, or whether they both are wrong for entirely different reasons. This is what disturbs me most of all in this entire situation. Science lives in the questions we ask, and if one side shuts down the question-asking, then the science and our understanding suffers. Gore asserts that proponents are motivated in a "pure" way by helping mankind, which I don't doubt. But helping mankind also involves getting government funding, here to the tune of $29 billion dollars over the past 20 years. So there is indeed economic incentive on both sides. However, in neither case does it flatly negate the science that results. Sometimes people who are the most motivated are the best at finding good answers, good questions or factual limitations, so it makes no sense to me to shut them down no matter what "side" they are on.

I find it terrible that people can read Ross Gelbspan's book (e.g., the heat is on) and suddenly feel completely righteous in pronouncing Richard Lindzen of MIT as "discredited". Since when does reading a book by a political activist allow you to render judgment on a professional, Ph.D. scientist from one of the best universities in the world, and who has devoted his entire life to understanding climate change? I have found that the people who do this know almost nothing of the actual science. It appears they are looking for a basis on which to turn their own beliefs into cudgels. That doesn't help understand what is or may be, going on. I mention it because several friends of mine did just that.

Michaels also adds other issues that seem immediately important to the debate but are ignored in almost all other treatments, for example, that humans are rather drastically changing the landscape by farming, by logging, by regrowing forests, creating reservoirs, and that these affect the amount of incident energy absorbed or reflected, and likely alter the overall energy balance. If you wish to understand the overall debate, this is an excellent source of information and questions.

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Six years on, this book looks better and better.......2006-11-27

This past winter (2006) was the coldest ever measured in Antarctica (and, generally, throughout the Southern Hemisphere). I have always thought that Pat Michaels was too hasty is conceding that the globe has warmed half a degree or so in the past century. It may not have warmed at all. In any event, the review I wrote in 2000 understates the problems with the warmers,.

Just hours after I finished "The Satanic Gases" in 2000, the Associated Press reported on an alarming assessment of climate change done for Congress, which predicts the bad things that will happen if the world heats up by 5 to 10 degrees over the next century.
But not to worry. It's another hoax.
How so? Well, the agency in charge of panicking the world about climate change, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is predicting a global temperature rise between 1990 and 2100 of just 3 degrees.
And besides, it rates the uncertainty of its own estimate as between 1 and 3.5 degrees.
Put another way, the lowest estimate used for the report to Congress is 50 percent worse than the highest estimate made by the body that claims to represent the consensus view of the world's scientists.
What's a body to do? Climatologist Pat Michaels has been a reliable guide on this issue. Now, in "The Satanic Gases," he and Robert Balling bring up to date the questions Michaels published in "Sound and Fury" in 1992.
In "Satanic Gases," they maintain Michaels' earlier position, which is that 1) the general circulation models used to predict climate change are unreliable; 2) that warming will be less than the IPCC predicts; and 3) what warming does happen will be mostly at night and during the winter, and the effects will be good for everybody.
They now are able to defend those views in greater detail than eight years ago. The $10 billion spent on climate research since then has at least bought a deeper understanding of how Earth's climate behaves.
But, they argue, following the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn, we are in a "paradigm shift," in which evidence is piling up against the orthodox view, causing orthodox scientists to create ever more baroque explanations to defend the old order.
Eventually, according to Kuhn, the walls are breached and the new, simpler, more persuasive explanation is accepted. (But, Kuhn says, it usually requires that the orthodox die off; few change their minds.)
Kuhn's theory relies heavily on the history of cosmographic and physical science in a bygone age, when the heterodox risked burning at the stake by the Holy Inquisition.
In that respect, we are better off. The lifestyles of the young and heterodox may blight their academic careers, but at least they are not murdered.
In fact, say Michaels and Balling, in the modern system of peer-reviewed research publications, even heterodox reports get published.
To get past the orthodox reviewers, these studies must be exceptionally compelling.
Michaels and Balling claim that hundreds of such studies have now been done, though they are swamped by the tens of thousands of orthodox ones.
No layman could possibly sort out the mess. So the question is, who has a good record as a guide?
Michaels does. In the kind of backhanded compliments that are so common in the global warming debate, the panicmongers have repeatedly made "corrections" to their models in the direction where Michaels (and a few others) pointed. They just don't give him credit.
Instead, he has been internationally vilified by a number of governments' environment ministers.
Nevertheless, in the late '80s, Michaels asserted that the predictions of the climate models were too high. By 1995, enough time had passed and enough real temperatures were available that it was embarrassingly clear than Michaels was right.
The models looked ridiculous. To save the appearances, the IPCC decided that the cooling effects of sulfate aerosols (which are abundantly created by the same processes that enhance global warming) must be cranked into the models.
In "Satanic Gases," Michaels and Balling demolish the validity of the sulfate adjustment, but whether they are correct about that or not, the underlying fact is beyond dispute: The panicmongers were wrong, and their wrong conclusions were the underpinning of the Kyoto Treaty on climate control.
Michaels and Balling do not dispute that human activity is having an effect on climate, nor that the world is getting warmer. But, they say, we do not have to rely on models to tell us what will happen. "Since we have been enhancing the greenhouse effect for more than 100 years, nature has already given us the answer," they write.
That answer, they contend, is not just a greenhouse world but a greener world, with better weather (fewer storms, and not more as the panicmongers have predicted), bigger crops and fewer weather-related deaths.

Finally scientists speak.......2005-12-21

A must read for anyone with any functioning gray cells.

Finally some scientists speak out on the subject. Before this book, all I had to judge from was questionable logic from the media. At least now I have some "balance" on the problem.

The authors explore questions that someone merely influenced by talking heads and politicians would never consider. Is mankind the cause of global warming or are we just part of the process? What "are" greenhouse gases? Exactly how much of them do we actually contribute? What is Earth's history and tolerance to them? AND MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL: Is global warming a bad thing?

Their explanation of the flaws in the "Peer Review" process is worth the read alone.

Caution: If you voted for algore, and believe everything he says, this book will be wasted on you - don't bother - go read Earth in the balance again (what a waste of ink). But if you have the ability to consider counter positions, it may be worth the risk.

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Everything you need to know about Atmospheric Science

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics: From Air Pollution to Climate Change
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The only single-source reference available on atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, and atmospheric models

This fully revised and expanded version of John H. Seinfeld's successful Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics of Air Pollution provides a rigorous, comprehensive treatment of the chemistry of the atmosphere. With new chapters on such important topics as cloud physics, nucleation, and wet deposition, this book offers a truly up-to-date examination of atmospheric chemistry today, including:
* Chemistry of the stratosphere and troposphere
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* Formation and chemistry of clouds
* Interaction of atmospheric chemistry and climate
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* Formulation of mathematical chemical/transport models of the atmosphere.

Complete with solved examples, problems graded according to difficulty, and hundreds of illustrations, this state-of-the art reference is an ideal resource for both students and professionals in all areas of engineering as well as atmospheric science.

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Too many typos.......2006-02-01

It may be the so-called Bible of atmospheric science, but there are too many typos for my taste. Perhaps if you're just trying to remember what the proper equation is, it'd work better.

Tables of values are frequently missing minus signs here and there, which can make working out the problems and/or examples difficult. There are other random typos that make examples simply not work out. If you just want the equations, this is ok, but for learning, it's actually easier when the typos are in the equations (and not the numbers), since in that case there's a "thought trail" of sorts.

The book claims to be the only reference, in which case you haven't got much choice, but that doesn't make it good.

The Bible.......2004-03-25

As if this needs a review... its a bible for atomspheric scientists of all genre. A must have. Especially good for any grad student preparing for the random question during an oral exam. Not that you could read the thing cover to cover, but there is something for everyone.

If you need a great reference, then this is it. If you are not sure you should buy one of the best references for atomsopheric chemistry and physics, then there is no reason to. That's just a sign that you probably don't need it.

Everything you need to know about Atmospheric Science.......1999-11-22

This book has it all. If you are in the field of atmospheric sciences, it is a muct have. If you're not in the field, but are interested in learning about atmospheric science, I'd highly recommend it. It's a technical book, with plenty of math, but it is written in an engaging, easy to read format. It's packed with information on eveything from tropospheric ozone formation to industruial plume dispersion modeling. It has everything you need to know about atmospheric science.

Pollutants From Combustion Formation And Impact On Atmospheric Chemistry (NATO ASI SERIES)

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The preservation of the environment is of increasing concern at all scales, from individual countries through continents to the entire planet. Combustion is known to contribute substantially to damage to the atmosphere and therefore this book reviews current knowledge of the mechanisms by which the main pollutants are formed in combustion systems. In most situations, pollutants are present as trace components and their formation and removal is strongly conditioned by the chemical reactions initiated by fuel consumption. Specific papers therefore define precisely the general properties of combustion chemistry for gaseous, liquid and solid fuels. A substantial part of the work also concerns the impact on atmospheric chemistry of the main combustion pollutants: NOx, aromatics, soot, VOCs, sulfur and chlorinated compounds. It is this combination of combustion and atmospheric chemistry that gives the book its unique character.

Earth Under Siege: From Air Pollution to Global Change

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"We urgently need a comprehensive and comprehensible book on the dangers to the environment. That need has now been supplied in the present book by Richard Turco." --the Foreword by Carl Sagan This acclaimed book examines one of the most important problems facing our modern technological age: environmental pollution. Written to inform general readers--including future policy makers, business administrators, and political leaders--the text offers a comprehensive description of environmental systems, providing a basic understanding of how the world around us works and how human activities affect it. Building on a popular course he taught at UCLA, Richard Turco clearly explains underlying environmental principles and processes including the role of evolutionary forces in shaping the environment, Earth's energy balance, and biogeochemical cycles. Against this background, Turco surveys local and regional problems, including indoor air pollution, smog, and acid rain, identifying the sources and fates of pollutants and examining human exposure to natural and manmade toxins. He then addresses global issues such as stratospheric ozone depletion and greenhouse climate warming and describes responses to these threats in the form of "global environmental engineering." Now in its second edition, Earth Under Siege has been revised and updated to reflect advances in knowledge and progress in regulation. It offers a comprehensive overview of environmental issues for students in the physical and life sciences, geography, economics, engineering, environmental management and law, policy studies, and social and health sciences. Features BL Presents information in a way that is readily accessible to nonscientists but is sufficiently detailed to hold the interest of scientists and engineers BL Explains the technical principles underlying a wide range of current environmental problems BL Addresses critical local, regional, and global issues and their impact on life and society BL Uses common experiences and novel illustrations to familiarize students with fundamental concepts BL Challenges readers to think about and approach problems objectively and creatively BL Includes a helpful primer on the basic mathematics employed in the text

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Air Pollution
David H. F., Ed. Liu
Manufacturer: CRC
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1566705134

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Whether considered a threat to the health of humans in particular or of the ecosystem in general, the problem of air pollution affects us all. In addition to the 189 chemicals listed in the air toxins category of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, smog, acid rain, ozone depletion, and global warming all arise from air pollution. You can debate the prime causes Ã³acid rain, excessive lumbering or changes in the weather Ã³ but the diminishing rainforest and the spreading desert speak for themselves. Air Pollution addresses the sources and results of these problems, and how they influence the environment. It surveys all aspects of management, including dispersion modeling, emission measurements, air quality and continuous emission monitoring, remote sensing, and stack sampling. In addition, the book explores methods of reduction and control, with particular attention to gaseous emission controls and odor control. This stellar resource addresses the prevention of pollution created by existing technology, and the design of future zero-emissions technology. A useful guide for engineers, students or anyone working for environmental protection, Air Pollution provides a solid foundation and presents a sound environmental philosophy.

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Air Pollution Control Engineering
Noel de Nevers
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0070393672

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This text covers the whole air pollution field, from an engineering perspective. The principal topics are control devices and their theory. The book uses many more examples than other texts to help the student see the magnitudes of important quantities and to show and practice the practical application of theoretical treatments presented. The other half is devoted to topics that form some of the background for the selection of such devices, i.e., air pollution effects, the structure of U.S. air pollution law, atmospheric models, etc.

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Excellent Book!.......2005-01-26

Excellent book for air pollution engineering students, consultants, industry managers, and regulatory agency staff. Highly recommended.

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