Managing Environmental Pollution

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Managing Environmental Pollution presents a comprehensive introduction to the nature of pollution, its impacts on the environment, and the practical options and regulatory frameworks for pollution control. Sources of pollution, regulatory controls,

technological solutions, management and mitigation techniques and assessment tools, are examined in each key area: air, freshwater, and marine pollution, contaminated land and radioactive substances....

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Managing Environmental Pollution presents a comprehensive introduction to the nature of pollution, its impacts on the environment, and the practical options and regulatory frameworks for pollution control. Sources of pollution, regulatory controls,

technological solutions, management and mitigation techniques and assessment tools, are examined in each key area: air, freshwater, and marine pollution, contaminated land and radioactive substances. This illustrated book offers an invaluable up-to-date guide to both the principles and

practice of pollution management.

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A text for an introductory graduate or undergraduate course in environmental management, examining the scientific, regulatory, and sociopolitical context in which environmental managers work. Considers a selection of topics as representative and in light of what is covered by other volumes in the series. Takes a media-based approach, treating air, freshwater, marine, and radioactive substances separately. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Andrew Farmer is a pollution specialist with English Nature. He has a research background in freshwater ecology and air pollution research in the UK and USA.

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Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and acronyms
1 Introduction and basic principles 1
2 Air pollution and its impacts 21
3 Air pollution, regulation and management 57
4 The freshwater environment 103
5 Pollution of the marine environment 155
6 Managing pollution from radioactive substances 189
7 People, politics and the press 213
Glossary 227
References 230
Index 240
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