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Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the ACS, this volume, written for the scientifically literate nonspecialist, explores the interaction among the various elements of the global environment, emphasizing those components that affect the health and stability of the biosphere. It brings together researchers in prominent areas of global environmental concern, including chemistry, biology, and geophysics to examine such topics as the atmospheric component, the aquatic component, the terrestrial component, the global carbon cycle and climate change, and global environmental chemistry education. (c) by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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An authoritative, timely, succinct, and comprehensive assessment by some 50 scientists of the historical, contemporary, and projected anthropogenic impact on the environment. Following a primer on global environmental chemistry, this symposium volume focuses on the three major components of the physical environment: atmosphere, water, and land. Within each section, a brief overview chapter summarizes the major points of a series of five or so papers dealing with broad issues (e.g., ozone depletion followed by ultraviolet inhibition of marine photosynthesis) or specific case studies (e.g., the Great Lakes). The penultimate section deals with the global carbon cycle and climate change and the final section with environmental education. Although some of the articles are accessible to the intended target audience ("scientifically literate nonspecialists"), a number that are quite technical, jargon-laden, and with complex graphs, are not. Bibliographies are excellently rich, black-and-white graphs and tables are productively illustrative, and there is a quite comprehensive index. For those with broad interests in the environment it provides an insightful, up-to-date snapshot of where we are. Advanced undergraduates and up.-E. J. Kormondy, University of Hawaii at Hilo
