The Essential Guide to Environmental Chemistry

"This excellent and most reasonably priced guide is essential reading and a valuable reference source" (The ROSPA Occupational Safety Health Jnl. March 2002)

The Essential Guide to Environmental Chemistry outlines the problems and issues facing the environmental chemist throughout the ecosystem. Presented as a ?pocket-atlas?, this useful guide provides a concise overview of environmental pollution in air, water and soil as well as strategies for environmental analysis.

• Unique format with text and illustrations on facing pages
• Clear, full colour schematic diagrams making up 50% of the book
• A ?must-have? for undergraduates/graduates in this field

"An Essential Guide to Environmental Chemistry" ist die englische Übersetzung des erfolgreichen deutschen Originals. Ein umfassender und dennoch prägnanter Leitfaden zu den wichtigsten Problemen der Umweltchemie von Wasser, Boden und Luft, der auch Strategien für Umweltanalysen erörtet. Dieses Buch ist einzigartig in seiner Aufmachung: Der Textteil ist auf der einen Seite und die zugehörigen Farbabbildungen finden sich auf der gegenüberliegenden Seite. Die klaren, vollfarbigen schematischen Diagramme machen etwa die Hälfte des Buches aus. Es ist hervorragend geeignet zur Wiederholung des Stoffes oder als Einführung in die Umweltchemie. "An Essential Guide to Environmental Chemistry" - klein, handlich und immer parat: Umweltchemie für die Kitteltasche! Preface.

Introduction

MATERIALS CYCLES

Geochemical cycles

The carbon cycle

The nitrogen cycle

The sulphur cycle

The phosphorus cycle

Metal cycles

Special cycles

THE ATMOSPHERE

Physicochemical processes

Ecological photochemistry

Air pollution from combustion

Anthropogenous pollutants and their effects

Principles of air quality control

WATER

The Earth's water cycle

Chemistry in bodies of water

Processes for the preparation of drinking water

Basic principles of waste water chemistry and sewage treatment

SOIL

Basic principles of soil science

Physico- and biogeochemical processes

Metals and acid rain

Organic Contaminants

Methods for soil remediation

Chemistry and technology in landfills

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY OF SELECTED XENOBIOTICS AND HEAVY METALS

Pathways of pollutants, food chains and properties of materials

General decomposition pathways

Hydrocarbons: PAHs and PCBs

Dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans

Pesticides and tensides

Heavy metals and their species

PROBLEM- AND ACTIVITY-ORIENTED ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS

Environmental analaysis - strategies and concepts

Ecotoxicological concepts for evaluating risk

Bibliography

Index ".... valuable addition to the range of available texts ..." (Times Higher Educational Supplement, 4 January 2002)

"a useful source of reference" (World Surface Coatings Abstracts, January 2002

"a useful primer" (Industry Environment, January-March 2002)

"...The format of the book, with abundant high-quality colour illustrations excellent..." (Chemistry & Industry,5 August 2002)

"...This guide will be a must for undergraduate, graduate students taking environmental sciences course." (Int Jnl of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 82, No.10 2002)

"…This nice little book is something you would like to posess at once, given the chance to look through it for a minute…" (Int Jnl of Environment and Pollution, Vol.19, No.1, 2003)

"...a small compendium covering a truly wide array of topics with a didactically well written and presented range..." (Environmental Geology, Vol 44(876). 2003)

Georg Schwedt studied chemistry at the University of GÖttingen, Germany, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Hanover, Germany. Schwedt was appointed Director of the Institute of Food Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart. From 1987 until his retirement in 2006, he has been Professor of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at the Clausthal University of Technology. Since 2006, he has worked at the University of Bonn, Germany. Schwedt is the author of several analytical chemistry textbooks and a large number of popular science books. The fate of contaminants in the environment, in particular, the transfer processes of pollutants between different compartments of the ecosystem, are still not very well understood. The Essential Guide to Environmental Chemistry outlines the problems and issues facing the environmental chemist throughout the ecosystem, providing a concise overview of environmental pollution in air, water and soil. The book also includes a chapter on strategies for environmental analysis.

This "pocket atlas" translated from the highly successful German edition Taschenatlas der Umweltchemie, is unique in its graphical representation and condensed format. The quality and appeal of the full-colour diagrams are unmatched. It follows up the Essential Guide to Analytical Chemistry by the same author, and also very well received by readers.

Key features include:

* Unique format with text and illustrations on facing pages
* Clear, full colour schematic diagrams making up 50% of the book
* A highly readable pocket-sized presentation
* Comprehensive yet concise overview of environmental chemistry - ideal as a revision aid or introductory text
The Essential Guide to Environmental Chemistry will be a "must-have" for undergraduates/graduates taking environmental chemistry, science and management courses. It will also be an extremely valuable guide for environmental consultants, workers in public bodies responsible for monitoring environmental pollution e.g. river auhtorities, environmental protection agencies; for tose in industries which deal with waste disposal, sewage treatment, soil remediation, air pollution etc.; and those in private environmental analysis laboratories.