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Understanding environmental pollution

A comprehensive introduction to local and global pollution issues, for undergraduate students.
Print Book, English, 1997
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997
xvi, 316 p. : illustrations ; 27 cm
9780521562102, 9780521566803, 0521562104, 0521566800
911310324
1. Understanding pollution; 2. The waste management hierarchy; 3. An introduction to toxicology; 4. Environmental risk assessment; 5. Air pollution; 6. Air pollution and global change; 7. Water pollution; 8. Solid waste; 9. Metals; 10. Pesticides; 11. Environmental estrogens; 12. Energy production and use; 13. Pollution at home.
Includes index