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Fundamentals of Air Pollution
- 6th Edition - April 1, 2025
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 1 4 4 6 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 1 4 4 7 - 6
Fundamentals of Air Pollution, Sixth Edition offers an extensive study of the science of air pollution. With a highly interdisciplinary approach, the book's author examines air po… Read more
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Request a sales quoteFundamentals of Air Pollution, Sixth Edition offers an extensive study of the science of air pollution. With a highly interdisciplinary approach, the book's author examines air pollution through the lenses of chemistry, physics, meteorology, engineering, toxicology, regulation, and more. Students, faculty, and researchers alike will find a world of information in this comprehensive text that is strategically organized into six parts: Foundations of Air Pollution, The Risks of Air Pollution, Tropospheric Pollution, Biogeochemistry of Air Pollutants, Addressing Air Pollution, and The Future for Air Pollution Science and Engineering.
Readers will find helpful features throughout, including case studies, topical sidebars, worked examples, calculations, and reference data. This valuable resource offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of air pollution with its wealth of benefits to both students and researchers.
Readers will find helpful features throughout, including case studies, topical sidebars, worked examples, calculations, and reference data. This valuable resource offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of air pollution with its wealth of benefits to both students and researchers.
- Provides a systems approach to air pollution that helps readers understand the physical, chemical, biological, and engineering underpinning of any air quality topic
- Includes new sidebars and examples of emerging problems to help readers apply skills needed to address air pollution
- Presents critical equations, symbology, and a glossary useful for anyone who reads the Federal Register, state, province, and national standards and guidelines, and journal articles
Students and faculty for graduate courses in air pollution and control taught in departments of environmental science and engineering, atmospheric science, and public health, researchers/practitioners looking for the latest information on pollution science, Students in some appropriate upper-level undergraduate courses as well.
Part I. Foundations of Air Pollution
1. The State of the Atmosphere
2. The Physics of the Atmosphere
3. The Science of Air Pollution
4. Air Pollution Decision Tools
5. Life Cycle Assessment of Air Pollutants
Part II. The Risks of Air Pollution
6. Inherent Properties of Air Pollutants
7. Air Pollutant Hazards
8. Air Pollutant Exposures
9. Respiratory Effects of Air Pollutants
10. Cardiovascular Effects of Air Pollutants
11. Cancer and Air Pollutants
12. Reproductive and Hormonal Effects of Air Pollutants
13. Neurological Effects of Air Pollutants
14. Air Pollution's Impact on Ecosystems
15. Air Pollution's Impact on Materials and Structures
Part III. Tropospheric Pollution
16. Scale and Complexity of Air Pollution
17. Air Pollutant Kinetics and Transformation
18. Air Pollutant Kinetics and Equilibrium
19. Temporal Aspects of Air Pollution
Part IV. Biogeochemistry of Air Pollutants
20. The Hydrologic Cycle
21. The Carbon Cycle
22. The Nitrogen and Sulfur Cycles
23. Metal and Metalloid Cycles
Part V. Addressing Air Pollution
24. Source Sampling and Emission Measurement
25. Methods for Measuring Air Pollutants
26. Applying and Interpreting Air Quality Monitoring Data
27. Modeling Applications
28. Air Quality Status and Trends
29. Air Pollutant Emissions
30. Air Pollution Control Technologies
31. Controlling Air Pollution from Sources
Part VI. The Future for Air Pollution Science and Engineering
32. Sustainable Approaches
33. Grand Challenges
1. The State of the Atmosphere
2. The Physics of the Atmosphere
3. The Science of Air Pollution
4. Air Pollution Decision Tools
5. Life Cycle Assessment of Air Pollutants
Part II. The Risks of Air Pollution
6. Inherent Properties of Air Pollutants
7. Air Pollutant Hazards
8. Air Pollutant Exposures
9. Respiratory Effects of Air Pollutants
10. Cardiovascular Effects of Air Pollutants
11. Cancer and Air Pollutants
12. Reproductive and Hormonal Effects of Air Pollutants
13. Neurological Effects of Air Pollutants
14. Air Pollution's Impact on Ecosystems
15. Air Pollution's Impact on Materials and Structures
Part III. Tropospheric Pollution
16. Scale and Complexity of Air Pollution
17. Air Pollutant Kinetics and Transformation
18. Air Pollutant Kinetics and Equilibrium
19. Temporal Aspects of Air Pollution
Part IV. Biogeochemistry of Air Pollutants
20. The Hydrologic Cycle
21. The Carbon Cycle
22. The Nitrogen and Sulfur Cycles
23. Metal and Metalloid Cycles
Part V. Addressing Air Pollution
24. Source Sampling and Emission Measurement
25. Methods for Measuring Air Pollutants
26. Applying and Interpreting Air Quality Monitoring Data
27. Modeling Applications
28. Air Quality Status and Trends
29. Air Pollutant Emissions
30. Air Pollution Control Technologies
31. Controlling Air Pollution from Sources
Part VI. The Future for Air Pollution Science and Engineering
32. Sustainable Approaches
33. Grand Challenges
- No. of pages: 1026
- Language: English
- Edition: 6
- Published: April 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443314469
- eBook ISBN: 9780443314476