Perk Soil and Water Contamination, 2nd Edition

2. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-203-76889-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 428 Seiten

This textbook provides an overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contamination, in such a way that the reader can both understand and predict contaminant patterns in soil, groundwater, and surface water. In contract to most existing texts, soil and water pollution are treated as integrated environmental matter from a geographical/spatial perspective at point, local, regional, and catchment scales. The spatial approach links up with recent developments and trends in environmental legislation and other integrated catchment management initiatives.
The new edition contains several re-written parts, new material on pesticides and pharmaceutical contaminants and a greater number of exercises, case studies and examples. A lecturer package with worked solutions and exams, will be made available upon adoption.
It consists of four coherent parts: 1. Introduction to soil and water contamination; 2. Source, role, and behavior of substances in soil and water; 3. Transport and fate processes of substances in soil and water; and 4. Patterns of substances in soil and water.
Intended for undergraduate and graduate students in Earth and Environmental Sciences, who understand the fundamentals of chemistry, hydrology and soil science; may also serve as a useful reference for professionals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perk, Marcel van der

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Bodenkunde, Sedimentologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Hydrologie, Hydrogeologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Wasserversorgung, Wasseraufbereitung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: An introduction to soil and water pollution

- 1 General introduction

- 2 Basic environmental chemistry

- 3 Environmental compartments

Part II: Sources, role, and behaviour of substances in soil and water

- 4 Solid phase constituents

- 5 Major dissolved phase constituents

- 6 Nutrients

- 7 Heavy metals

- 8 Radionuclides

- 9 Organic pollutants

Part III: Transport and fate processes of substances in soil and water

- 10 Systems and models

- 11 Substance transport

- 12 Sediment transport and deposition

- 13 Chemical transformation

- 14 Gas exchange

- 15 Model calibration and validation

Part IV: Patterns of substances in soil and water

- 16 Patterns in the soil and in the vadose zone

- 17 Patterns in groundwater

- 18 Patterns in surface water

References

Appendix I: The periodic table of elements