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Earth under Siege: Air Pollution and Global Change [Hardback]

  • Formāts: Hardback, 480 pages, height x width: 255x190 mm, 201 line drawings, bibliography, index
  • Izdošanas datums: 07-Nov-1996
  • Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0195072863
  • ISBN-13: 9780195072860
Earth under Siege: Air Pollution and Global Change
  • Formāts: Hardback, 480 pages, height x width: 255x190 mm, 201 line drawings, bibliography, index
  • Izdošanas datums: 07-Nov-1996
  • Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0195072863
  • ISBN-13: 9780195072860
Air pollution is a major problem of the modern age. This textbook, based on the author's course at UCLA, is aimed at all students (including non-science majors) interested in air pollution's causes, effects and potential solutions. Major topics covered in the work include urban air pollution, global ozone depletion, the carbon cycle and greenhouse climate change. The book includes review questions and problems at the end of each chapter.
Part I. Fundamentals; Air - the medium of change; Basic physical and
chemical principles; Evolution of the Earth; Part II. Local and Regional
Pollution Issues; Pollutant sources and dispersion; Smog - The urban
syndrome; Effects of exposure to pollution; Indoor air pollution; Acid rain;
Part III. Global Scale Pollution Issues; Global biogeochemical cycles; The
climate machine; Greenhouse warming; The stratospheric ozone layer; Global
environment engineering; Appendices: Scientific notation, units and
constants; Demonstrations of physical and chemical phenomena.