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| Author(s): | J. Andrews et al. |
| Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing |
| ISBN: | 0632059052 |
| Format: | softback |
| 296pp | |
| Price: | £24.99 |
| Review Date: | 08 December 2003 |
| Review: | This textbook introduces some of the fundamental chemical principles that are used in studies in environmental chemistry and shows how they apply in various cases, in issues of varying scale, from global to local. Both man-made (CO2 emissions, cfcs etc.) and natural geochemical processes are examined. A strong theme is the importance of understanding how natural geochemical processes operate and have operated over different timescales. This new edition has more emphasis on organic chemistry, soils, contaminants in continental water and remediation of contaminated land. There are chapters on: the atmosphere; the chemistry of continental solids; the chemistry of continental waters; the oceans; and global change. |