Earth Under Siege
From Air Pollution to Global Change
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 28 March 2002
- ISBN 9780195142747
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages552 pages
- Size 252x190x26 mm
- Weight 1005 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous figures & halftones 0
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Short description:
This popular book examines one of the most important problems facing the modern age—air pollution. It provides a comprehensive description of the atmospheric environment, offering a basic understanding of how the physical environment surrounding us functions and how human activities are affecting it. Now in its second edition, this book has been thoroughly revised and updated, incorporating many comments of previous readers in order to create a clear, concise new
edition.
Long description:
This second edition of Richard Turco's successful book, Earth Under Siege, provides a basic understanding of how our physical environment functions and how human activities affect it. Intended to educate the lay person-especially the policy makers, business administrators, and political leaders of the future-about some of the most pressing problems facing our modern world, this important book effectively describes the realities of environmental pollution and
global change. It provides a comprehensive description of the natural environment and builds a foundation on which the science and policy of current environmental issues can be understood, including key local, regional, and global issues and their implications for society and human life.
"This reader-friendly book examines in some depth one of the most important problems facing our modern technological age - air pollution.....The text offers a comprehensive description of environment systems, providing a basic understanding of how the world around us works and how human activities affect it". International Journal of Environmental Studies, March 2003.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
Part I: Fundamentals
2. Air - the medium of change
3. Basic Physical and chemical principles
4. The evolution of earth
Part II: Local and regional pollution issues
5. Sources and dispersion of pollutants
6. Smog: the urban syndrome
7. Effects of exposure to pollution
8. Indoor air pollution
9. Acid rain
Part III: Global-scale pollution issues
10. Global biogeochemical cycles
11. The climate machine
12. Greenhouse warming
13. The stratospheric ozone layer
14. Global environmental engineering
Appendix A. Scientific notation, units, and constants
Appendix B. Demonstrations of common natural phenomena
Appendix C. Radiation nomenclature
Index
