Get a comprehensive overview of air quality issues with Air Quality, 4th Edition
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. 460 pp.
- Major revisions to sections on global warming and stratospheric ozone
depletion
- Discussion of public policy concerns, with a focus on air quality
standards for ozone depletion and global warming
- Overview of toxicological principles and risk assessment
- A glossary of key terms, a Web resource guide, and metric/US units
conversion tables
- Analysis of the control of emissions from stationary sources. The welfare
effects of air quality on materials, as well as crops, plants, trees, and
other organisms
Air Quality, Fourth Edition - Table of Contents:
- The Atmosphere
- Chemical Composition
- Physical Phenomena
- Atmospheric Motion
- Evolution of the Atmosphere
- Atmospheric Pollution and Pollutants
- Natural Air Pollution
- Anthropogenic Air Pollution
- Gas-Phase Pollutants
- Atmospheric Particles
- Atmospheric Dispersion, Transport and Deposition
- Dispersion and Transport
- Atmospheric Removal and Deposition Processes
- Meteorological Applications: Air Pollution Control
- Atmospheric Effects
- Visibility
- Turbidity
- Thermal Air Pollution
- Effects on Precipitation and Precipitation Processes
- Atmospheric Deposition
- Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
- Global Warming
- Health Effects
- Air Pollution Episodes
- Pollutant Exposures and Cause-Effect Relationships
- Impact of Pollutants on the Human Body
- Health Effects of Regulated Air Pollutants
- Personal Air Pollution
- Risk Assessment and Management
- Welfare Effects
- Effects on Agricultural Crops, Ornamental Plants, and Trees
- Effects on Domesticated Animals
- Ecological Effects
- Effects on Materials
- Odor Pollution
- Air Quality and Emissions Assessment
- Air Quality Monitoring
- Emissions Assessment
- Air Quality Modeling
- Regulation and Public Policy
- Non-Regulatory Legal Remedies
- Regulatory Strategies and Tactics
- Federal Legislative History
- Air Pollution Control Under the 1970, 1977, and 1990 Clean Air Act
Amendments
- State and Local Air Pollution Control Functions
- Public Policy Issues
- Control of Motor Vehicle Emissions
- Motor Vehicle Engines
- Automotive Fuels
- Low Emission and Zero Emission Vehicles
- Control of Emissions from Stationary Sources
- Control Practices
- Gas Cleaning Technology
- Control of Particulate-Phase Pollutants
- Control of Gas-Phase Pollutants
- Indoor Air Quality
- Personal, Indoor, and Outdoor Pollutant Relationships
- Indoor Air Quality Concerns
- Major Indoor Pollutants
- Problem Buildings
- Investigating Indoor Air Quality Problems
- Measurement of Indoor Contaminants
- Prevention and Control Measures
- Indoor Air Quality and Public Policy
- Environmental Noise
- Sound and Its Measurement
- Sound Exposure Descriptors
- Loudness
- Effects of Environmental Noise Exposure
- Non-Regulatory and Regulatory Control Approaches
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