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Environmental Chemistry

Asian Lessons

By: V.N. Bashkin

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Hardcover | 30 April 2003

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At present environmental chemistry is becoming an increasingly popular subject in both under graduate and graduated education in the whole World and especially in all Asian countries. Different courses in ecology, chemistry, environmental science, public health, geography, biology, and environmental engineering all include this subject in their curriculum.

Many textbooks have appeared in recent years aiming to fulfill these requirements; however, most of these books operate mainly with examples from developed countries of Europe, USA and Canada. Taking into account the geographic boundaries of environmental pollution that is especially pronounced in Asia and the specific peculiarities of pollution in developing countries, this textbook is supposed to close the gap by providing regionally oriented knowledge in basic and applied environmental chemistry.

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"This book provides significant information on the impact of rapid industrialization and urbanization on air, soil, and water in the Asian environment. Questions at the end of each chapter are appropriately designed for undergraduate students. The author uses various combinations of expert approaches and geoinformation systems, including modelling, to predict critical load on ecosystems of Asia. This is a book for beginners intending to study the fate and behavior of contaminants in the environment." (Ravi Naidu, Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment & Remediation)

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Preface	p. xi
Energy and Atmospheric Pollution	p. 1
Sources of Environmental Pollution in Asia	p. 3
Introduction	p. 3
Stationary emission sources	p. 3
Emission of pollutants in various Asian countries	p. 10
Transboundary transport of sulfur and nitrogen compounds in the Eurasian continent	p. 17
Greenhouse Gases	p. 25
Introduction	p. 25
Sources of greenhouse effects in Asia	p. 26
Chemistry of the troposphere	p. 30
Increasing GHG concentrations in the troposphere	p. 35
Regional Asian impacts of global warming	p. 41
International agreements on global climate change	p. 43
Urban Air Pollution	p. 47
Introduction	p. 47
Modern state of urban air pollution in Asia	p. 47
Development of photochemical smog in Asian cities	p. 51
Role of particles in urban air pollution in Asian cities	p. 61
Indoor air quality	p. 69
Urban air pollution and health effects	p. 70
Acid Deposition	p. 77
Introduction	p. 77
Acid rain monitoring in Asia	p. 77
Chemistry of acid rain	p. 94
Ecological consequences of acid rain in Asia	p. 99
Mitigation of acid rains in Asian countries	p. 109
Haze Pollution	p. 115
Introduction	p. 115
Sources and transport of haze pollutants	p. 115
Chemical composition of haze	p. 117
Synergetic effects with other anthropogenic pollutants	p. 125
Human and environmental implications	p. 130
Stratospheric Ozone Depletion	p. 137
Introduction	p. 137
Stratospheric chemistry of ozone	p. 137
Role of chlorofluorocarbons in stratosphere ozone depletion	p. 140
Role of nitrous oxide in stratosphere ozone depletion	p. 151
Consequences of ozone depletion	p. 152
CFCs emission abatement strategy	p. 154
Soil and Water Pollution	p. 161
Soil Pollution	p. 163
Introduction	p. 163
Characteristic biogeochemical features of soils and natural ecosystems in Asia	p. 163
Modern land use in Asia	p. 170
Chemical deterioration of soils	p. 174
Freshwater Pollution	p. 185
Introduction	p. 185
Water resources in the Asian region	p. 185
Hydrochemistry of natural waters	p. 189
Pollution loading and consequences	p. 201
Policies and strategies for abatement of water pollution in Asia	p. 211
Pollution of Marine Waters	p. 217
Introduction	p. 217
Soluble and solid discharge of pollutants into the Pacific and Indian Oceans	p. 217
Marine water chemistry	p. 221
Consequences of coastal and marine water pollution	p. 231
Drinking Waters	p. 237
Introduction	p. 237
Purification of freshwater in Asia	p. 237
Chemical, toxicological, and economic aspects of various disinfectants in Asian cities	p. 243
Pollutants in drinking water	p. 252
Bottled drinking water	p. 254
Desalination	p. 257
Toxic Substances	p. 261
Ecotoxicological Chemistry	p. 263
Introduction	p. 263
Biochemical aspects of toxicant behavior in living organisms	p. 263
Interactions between environmental chemistry, toxicology and ecotoxicological chemistry	p. 268
Effects of toxicants on carcinogenesis, teratogenesis, mutagenesis, and immune system	p. 273
Ecotoxicological properties of principal pollutants	p. 284
Environmental Chemistry of Heavy Metals	p. 297
Introduction	p. 297
Emission of heavy metals from coal-burning power plants	p. 297
Environmental chemistry of arsenic	p. 308
Environmental geochemistry of mercury	p. 311
Environmental geochemistry of lead	p. 318
Environmental Chemistry of Nitrogen	p. 327
Introduction	p. 327
Biogeochemical cycle of nitrogen	p. 327
Environmental biogeochemistry of nitrogen in the Asian region	p. 334
Nitrate biogeochemical provinces and cancer diseases in the Asian region	p. 354
Organic Xenobiotics	p. 361
Introduction	p. 361
Pesticides in the Asian countries	p. 361
Polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs	p. 370
Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs)	p. 374
Chlorinated phenols	p. 379
Environmental Chemistry for Sustainable Development in Asia	p. 385
Critical Loads	p. 387
Introduction	p. 387
Definition of critical load	p. 387
The critical load concept	p. 389
Critical load values of acid forming compounds on ecosystems of Asia	p. 389
Application of critical load approach for calculation of HMs and POPs deposition	p. 406
Waste Treatment	p. 409
Introduction	p. 409
Type and sources of wastes in the Asian region	p. 409
Waste treatment in Asian countries	p. 421
Waste recycling	p. 434
Site remediation after waste disposal	p. 438
References	p. 449
Index	p. 463
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