Environmental and Pollution Science

Environmental and Pollution Science, Third Edition, continues its tradition on providing readers with the scientific basis to understand, manage, mitigate, and prevent pollution across the environment, be it air, land, or water. Pollution originates from a wide variety of sources, both natural and man-made, and occurs 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 topics that are critical to addressing pollution issues, from human-health impacts to environmental justice to developing sustainable solutions. 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 systems and can be used by students and professionals from a diversity of backgrounds focusing on the environmentCovers many aspects critical to assessing and managing environmental pollution including characterization, risk assessment, regulation, transport and fate, and remediation or restorationNew topics to this edition include Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services, Pollution in the Global System, Human Health Impacts, the interrelation between Soil and Human Health, Environmental Justice and Community Engagement, and Sustainability and Sustainable SolutionsIncludes color photos and diagrams, chapter questions and problems, and highlighted key words

PART 1 Fundamental Concepts 1. The Extent of Global Pollution 2. Physical-Chemical Characteristics of Soils and the Subsurface  3. Physical-Chemical Characteristics of Waters  4. Physical-Chemical Characteristics of the Atmosphere  5. Microbial Characteristics of the Environment  6. Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services 7. Physical Processes Affecting Contaminant Transport and Fate  8. Chemical Processes Affecting Contaminant Transport and Fate  9. Biological Processes Affecting Contaminant Transport and Fate

PART 2 Environmental Pollution 10. The Role of Environmental Monitoring in Pollution Science  11. Physical Contaminants  12. Chemical Contaminants  13. Microbial Contaminants 14. Soil and Land Pollution  15. Subsurface Pollution  16. Surface Water Pollution  17. Atmospheric Pollution  18. Urban and Household Pollution

PART 3 Remediation, Restoration, Treatment, and Reuse 19. Soil and Groundwater Remediation  20. Ecosystem Restoration and Land Reclamation  21. Industrial and Municipal Solid Waste Treatment and Disposal 22. Municipal Wastewater Treatment  23. Land Application of Biosolids and Animal Wastes  24. Drinking Water Treatment and Water Security

PART 4 Global Systems and the Human Dimensions to Environmental Pollution 25. Pollution and Environmental Perturbations in the Global System  26. Environmental Human Health 27. Medical Geology and the Soil Health: Human Health Nexus 28. Environmental Toxicology  29. Risk Assessment  30. Environmental Laws and Regulations  31. Environmental Justice  32. Sustainable Development and Other Solutions to Pollution and Global Change  33. Epilogue: Is the Future of Pollution History?