Aquatic Pollution

An Introductory Text

Edward A. Laws (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

622 Seiten

1993 | 2nd Revised edition
Halsted Press (Verlag)
978-0-471-53457-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This revised text provides guidelines for dealing with the pollution of oceans, lakes, streams and underground aquifers. It covers pollution associated with such sources as sewage treatment, urban run-off, pesticides, acid rain, plastics and metals, and industrial contaminants.

Inhalt

Fundamental Concepts; Photosynthesis; Physical Factors Affecting Production; Cultural Eutrophication--Case Studies; Urban Runoff; Sewage Treatment; Pathogens in Natural Waters; Toxicology; Industrial Pollution; Pesticides; Thermal Pollution and Power Plants; Metals; Oil Pollution; Radioactivity; Acid Deposition; Groundwater Pollution; Plastics in the Sea; Index.

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Environmental Science and Technology Series
• Zusatzinfo: Ill.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• ISBN-10: 0-471-53457-9 / 0471534579
• ISBN-13: 978-0-471-53457-0 / 9780471534570
• Zustand: Neuware