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Basic Hazardous Waste Management
This third edition updates and expands the material presented in the best-selling first and second editions of Basic Hazardous Waste Management. It covers health and safety issues affecting hazardous waste workers, management and regulation of radioactive and biomedical/infectious wastes, as well as current trends in technologies. While the topics
Water and Health - Volume II
Water and Health is a component of Encyclopedia of Biological, Physiological and Health Sciences in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The volume discusses wide spectrum of water-related pathogenic micro-organisms. Water is closely associated with the spread of many of the diseases referred to. Infections are predominately caused by contaminated drinking-water supplies and shortcomings in sanitation and personal hygiene. Current health risks associated with drinking-water supplies have been used to define needs and priorities (Future needs and priorities). Attention is given to both pathogenic micro-organisms and hazardous chemical compounds. Challenges referred to include those created by increasing numbers of people with high susceptibility and vulnerability to waterborne disease. These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.
Environmental Science and Technology Handbook
This book bridges the gap between understanding environmental science and technology and complying with today's regulations. Clearly written in understandable, everyday English, the Environmental Science and Technology Handbook provides easy access to a wealth of information. Written by representatives from five nationally known environmental engineering firms, this handbook brings together in one source everything you need to know about Geology and Groundwater Hydrology; Air Quality; Human Health Risk Assessment; Ecological Risk Assessment; Environmental Chemistry and Analysis of Regulated Compounds; Environmental Processes; Pollution Prevention Through Total Quality Management; Air Pollution Control Technologies; Ground-water Pollution Control Technologies; Solid and Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal Technologies; Underground and Aboveground Storage Tank Technologies; plus an index.
Basic Hazardous Waste Management
This Second Edition updates and expands the material presented in the bestselling original edition of Basic Hazardous Waste Management. The same practical approach is found in this new edition, making it an ideal textbook for students and an excellent reference source for professionals. Readers are provided with a broad overview of practices and techniques used in modern hazardous waste management, radiological waste management, underground storage tank management, and biomedical/infectious waste management. Fundamental issues are introduced, including hazardous waste site remediation technology and the application of federal statutes, regulations, programs and policies to the cleanup of haz...
The Secret Life of John C. Van Dyke
The author of The Desert, the book that made the American landscape accessible to the mainstream mind, was much less like his fellow environmental prophets John Muir and Henry David Thoreau than he would have had us believe. Van Dyke claimed to have wandered ""alone on horseback for thousands of miles through the American Southwest and northern Mexico,"" as readers of The Desert-now in the millions since the book was published in 1901-were told. He did not. In The Secret Life of John C. Van Dyke, Teague and Wild unmask the desert saint with Van Dyke's own recently discovered letters. These letters depict a privileged, patrician, and pampered member of the upper-class. His incriminating corre...
Environmental Policy with Political and Economic Integration
Issues discussed include the regulation of agricultural pollution, global warming, ozone pollution and environmental security.
