Description

by R.S. Ambasht

This thoroughly revised and updated edition is an authoritative and modern book useful to students, teachers, professionals and everyone else interested in environmental awareness, education, management and pollution controls. It describes in detail water resources, storage, cycling, ecosystem function of marine, freshwater lakes, rivers and other wetlands, biological and physicochemical characterisations, kinds and causes of pollution and control devices. It also describes in detail the atmospheric factor, air pollution due to industrial, domestic and other sources, global changes, ozone depletion and UV-8 enhancement effects and about air pollution control technologies. Soil pollution, problems of solid wastes, soil erosion and conservation, radioactive pollution, noise pollution, laws and international efforts on pollution controls are described in different chapters.