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Understanding Environmental Pollution

Authors

Marquita K. Hill
, University of Maine, Orono
Published 2020

Description

This undergraduate textbook examines environmental pollution ranging from our homes to the global environment. Completely updated and with over 50% new and rewritten material, this new edition assesses the international scope of pollution, including water, climate change, acidification, energy, solid and hazardous waste, persistent chemicals, and pesticides. The pollutants of current major concern are examined, including plastics and electronic waste. Both the impacts and the sources of pollution are addressed, as well as governmental, corporate, and personal responsibility for pollution.…

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Key features

  • Accessible and compelling writing style uses non-technical language where possible to appeal to students with little scientific background
  • Each chapter has been significantly updated from the Third Edition, with more than 50% new and rewritten material
  • Student questions are now organised at the ends of the chapters
  • Emphasis is placed on major pollution issues of international scope
  • The author provides a more holistic focus in this edition, examining a circular economy with closed-loop systems
  • Further reading and endnotes have been thoroughly updated

About the book

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108395021
  • Subjects Chemistry,Earth and Environmental Sciences,Environmental Chemistry,Environmental Science
  • Format: Hardback
    • Publication date: 13 August 2020
    • ISBN: 9781108423083
    • Dimensions (mm): 276 x 219 mm
    • Weight: 1.52kg
    • Contains: 105 b/w illus. 44 tables 327 exercises
    • Page extent: 466 pages
    • Availability: Available
  • Format: Paperback
    • Publication date: 13 August 2020
    • ISBN: 9781108436106
    • Dimensions (mm): 276 x 219 mm
    • Weight: 1.33kg
    • Contains: 105 b/w illus. 44 tables 327 exercises
    • Page extent: 466 pages
    • Availability: Available
  • Format: Digital
    • Publication date: 25 September 2020
    • ISBN: 9781108395021

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