Impact, monitoring and management of environmental pollution [[electronic resource] /] / Ahmed El Nemr, editor

• Pubblicazione: Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (660 p.)
• Disciplina: 628.5
• Soggetto topico: Civil engineering - Environmental aspects; Construction industry - Environmental aspects; Pollution - Measurement
• Altri autori: El-NemrAhmed <1962->
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""IMPACT, MONITORINGAND MANAGEMENTOF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""What is Environmental Pollution?""; ""Environmental Pollution Causes""; ""Environmental Pollution Effects""; ""Ecosystem Effect""; ""Human Health Effects""; ""Economic Effects""; ""2. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS AND THEIR IMPACTS""; ""What Substances are Pollutants?""; ""The Classification of Environmental Pollutants""; ""2.1. Solid Pollutants""; ""Characteristics of Solid Waste""; ""The Impacts of Solid Waste"" ; ""Sources of Hazardous Waste""""Impact of Hazardous Waste""; ""Biological Effects of Radioactivity""; ""2.2.Liquid Pollutants""; ""What is in Wastewater?""; ""Domestic Wastewater""; ""Agricultural Wastewater""; ""Stormwater""; ""Oil Pollution Impacts""; ""2.3. Gaseous Pollutants""; ""Impacts of Sulfur Dioxide""; ""Sources of Nitrogen Oxides""; ""Impacts of Nitrogen Oxides""; ""Sources of Ozone""; ""Impacts of Ozone""; ""Sources of Carbon Monoxide""; ""Impacts of Carbon Monoxide""; ""2.4. Other Pollutants and their Impacts""; ""3. CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES"" ; ""ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND IMPACTSOF CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY""""ABSTRACT""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. CONSTRUCTION PLAYERS AND THEIR ROLES, COMMITMENTAND RESPONSIBILITIES""; ""3. IMPACTS OF CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES ON THE ENVIRONMENT""; ""4. LAND DEGRADATION""; ""5. LOSS OF FLORA AND FAUNA""; ""6. SOLID WASTES""; ""7. WATER POLLUTION""; ""8. AIR POLLUTION""; ""9. DEPLETION OF RESOURCES""; ""10. NOISE AND VIBRATION""; ""12. ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS""; ""13. HOW TO IDENTIFY ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTSAND SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS""; ""14. MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT""; ""15. HOW TO CONDUCT MEASUREMENT"" ; ""16. MANAGING ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND IMPACTS""""17. CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES:""; ""RADIATION IN THE ENVIRONMENT: SOURCES,IMPACTS AND USES""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. SOURCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION""; ""2.1. Natural Sources of Radiation""; ""2.2. Artificial Sources of Radiation""; ""2.3. Technologically Enhanced Natural Sources of Radiation""; ""3. IMPACTS OF RADIATION ON THE ENVIRONMENT""; ""3.1. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Impact of Radiation""; ""3.2. Developments in the Assessment and Control of Radiological Impacts"" ; ""3.3. Transport of Radionuclides in the Environment""""3.4. Exposure of the General Public to Natural Background Radiation""; ""3.5. Comparing Human Exposures to Natural and Artificial Sources""; ""3.6. Beneficial Uses of Radiation in the Environment""; ""REFERENCES""; ""FRESHWATER CYANOBACTERIAL (BLUE-GREENALGAE) BLOOMS: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCESAND CONTROL""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1. CYANOBACTERIAL BLOOMS""; ""1.1. Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Cyanobacterial Blooms""; ""1.2. Factors Affecting Cyanobacterial Bloom Formation and Proliferation"" ; ""1.3. Strategies Adopted by Cyanobacteria During Bloom Formation""
• Titolo autorizzato: Impact, monitoring and management of environmental pollution
• ISBN: 1-61324-777-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816956703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pollution Science, Technology and Abatement