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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299443103321

Titolo

Environmental Indicators / / edited by Robert H. Armon, Osmo Hänninen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

94-017-9499-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1061 p.)

Disciplina

333.7

363.7063

363.73

363.7394

Soggetti

Pollution

Environmental monitoring

Water pollution

Pollution, general

Monitoring/Environmental Analysis

Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

PART I. Environmental Thermodynamics -- PART II. Climate Change -- PART III. Conservation -- PART IV. Environmental Degradation -- PART V. Environmatics -- PART VI. Intensive Farming -- PART VII. Land Degradation -- PART VIII. Soil -- PART IX. Land Use -- PART X. Environmental Pollution -- PART XI. Water Pollution -- PART XII. Water Biological Pollution -- PART XIII. Water Chemical Pollution -- PART XIV. Air Pollution -- PART XV. Environmental Health.

Sommario/riassunto

Environmental indicators are the first line of warning against hazards caused by humans or nature catastrophes to prevent diseases and death of living organisms. The present book covers a large variety of environmental indicators from physical-chemistry through economical, bioinformatics, electromagnetic irradiation and health aspects, all dealing with environmental pollution. This volume has been intended to environmentalists, engineers, scientists and policy makers as well to



anybody interested in the latest development in the indicator field. .