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Summary
Summary
This work, intended for informed, non-technical readers, provides an objective overview of important environmental issues. The book starts with the traditional topics of air, land and water pollution, but also presents newer issues, including solid waste management, the greenhouse effect, electromagnetic fields and questions of environmental equity. The authors also focus on how to prevent the pollution in the first place, rather than on simply cleaning it up afterwards.
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The numerous contributions to this comprehensive, well-organized, and well-written book speculate on environmental problems in the 21st century. The collection covers a very wide range of environmental issues at an elementary level and could serve as an appropriate resource in introductory environmental courses. Coverage includes exceptionally clear discussions of air pollution--how pollutants are dispersed, measurement, and control; water pollution--pollution control equipment, dispersion modeling; solid waste--industrial and municipal concerns, hospitals, and nuclear waste; special concerns--asbestos, metals, acid rain, electromagnetic fields, noise pollution, global warming; awareness and action--ethics and environmental justice, the EPA; and prevention--health, safety, and accident management, energy conservation, and waste reduction. The total lack of any quantitatively described processes is a bit frustrating. Each chapter was carefully written and edited to provide a smooth transition from one chapter to the next. Individual author biases are evident but are not a significant problem because the one area avoided by all, environmental politics, is now part of every environmental issue. All levels. M. S. Field U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
