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    Environmental Contaminants: Assessment and Control
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    Environmental Contaminants: Assessment and Control

    By Daniel A. Vallero

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    About this ebook

    Environmental Contaminants serves as a tool for environmental professionals to produce technically sound and reproducible scientific evidence. It identifies ways to clean up environmental problems in air, water, soil, sediment and living systems. Ethical issues, environmental management, and professionalism, and environmental economic problems are illustrated to assist the reader in understanding and applying quantitative analysis of environmental problems.
    • Real life solutions for practicing environmental professionals.
    • Example problems, sidebars, and case studies to illustrate ethical issues, environmental economic problems, and environmental management.
    • Explanation of scientific principles and concepts needed for risk assessment, waste management, contaminant transport, environmental hydrogeology, and environmental engineering & chemistry.
    • A fully supportive glossary, appendices and tables throughout the text contain physical, chemical and biological resources necessary for all environmental practitioners.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAcademic Press
    Release dateAug 5, 2010
    ISBN9780080470351
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    Environmental Contaminants: Assessment and Control
    Author

    Daniel A. Vallero

    Professor Daniel A. Vallero is an internationally recognized author and expert in environmental science and engineering. He has devoted decades to conducting research, teaching, and mentoring future scientists and engineers. He is currently developing tools and models to predict potential exposures to chemicals in consumer products. He is a full adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. He has authored 20 environmental textbooks, with the most recent addressing the importance of physical principles in environmental science and engineering. His books have addressed all environmental compartments and media within the earth’s atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.

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