Environmental and Pollution Science

Environmental and Pollution Science, Third Edition continues its tradition on providing readers with the scientific basis to understand, manage and mitigate pollution across the environment, be it air, land or water. Pollution comes from a wide variety of sources, both natural and man-made, and in a wide variety of forms including, biological, chemical, particulate or even energy, making a multivariate approach to assessment and mitigation essential for success. This third edition has been updated and revised to include issues which have become more prominent when addressing pollution from sustainability of solutions to emerging pathogens to environmental justice. Environmental and Pollution Science, Third Edition is designed to give readers the tools to be able to understand and implement multi-disciplinary approaches to help solve current and future environmental pollution problems.

• Emphasizes conceptual understanding of environmental impacts and can be used by students and professionals from a diversity of backgrounds focusing on the environment
• Covers many aspects critical to assessing and managing environmental pollution including characterization, risk assessment, regulation, fate and transport and remediation or restoration
• New topics to this edition include Urban Pollution, Household Pollution, Ecosystem Services, Sustainability, Pollution in the Global System, Emerging Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance, the interrelation between Soil and Human Health as well as Environmental Health and Community Engagement
• Includes color photos and diagrams, chapter questions and problems, and highlighted key words