Environmental Contaminants: Assessment and Control

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* Real life solutions for practicing environmental professionals.
* Example problems, sidebars, and case studies to illustrate ethical issues, environmental economic problems, and environmental management.
* Explanation of scientific principles and concepts needed for risk assessment, waste management, contaminant transport, environmental hydrogeology, and environmental engineering & chemistry.
* A fully supportive glossary, appendices and tables throughout the text contain physical, chemical and biological resources necessary for all environmental practitioners.

Audience: Environmental Engineers, Risk Assessment Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Environmental Toxicology Engineers, Soils Scientists, Ecologist, Geoscientists, Hydrologists.

Environmental Contaminants will advance the reader’s understanding of the science, engineering and technology of environmental problem-solving and risk assessment through a series of real-life and theoretical questions, problems and exercises. The text serves as a tool for environmental professionals who must generate technically sound and reproducible scientific evidence, as well as others who simply need to know how environmental assessments are conducted and what the results mean. The book identifies ways to clean up environmental problems in air, water, soil, sediment and living systems. Ethical issues, environmental management, and environmental economic problems are woven throughout the text to provide contexts for decision making while assisting the reader in understanding and applying quantitative analysis to environmental problems.

Environmental Contaminants sets the stage for the interdisciplinary nature of environmental science and engineering, providing an overview of environmental movements, and emphasizing the importance of a strong quantitative scientific foundation. Students, professionals, as well as interested members of the public will benefit from the juxtaposition of quantitative environmental science with methods for practical application. Notation and terms are introduced and defined within the context of the discussion of contaminant behavior, and are later defined in the glossary. Key features include:

• Real life solutions for practicing environmental professionals.
• Example problems, sidebars, and case studies to illustrate ethical issues, environmental economic problems, and environmental management.
• Explanation of scientific principles and concepts needed for risk assessment, waste management, contaminant transport, environmental hydrogeology, and environmental engineering & chemistry.
• A fully supportive glossary, appendices and tables throughout the text contain physical, chemical and biological resources necessary for all environmental practitioners.

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Dan Vallero is an internationally recognized expert in the transport, chemical transformation and environmental fate of hazardous pollutants. His three decades of professional experience in hazardous waste engineering and management have included research, teaching and regulatory advice related to a wide range of human health risk and ecological issues, from global climate change to the release of hazardous products of incomplete combustion from waste incinerators to the assessment of the risks from exposures to environmental endocrine disruptors. Dr. Vallero recently established the Engineering Ethics program at Duke University. This innovative program introduces students to the complex relationships between science, technology and societal demands on the engineer. The lessons learned from the cases in this book are a fundamental part of Duke’s preparation of its future engineers to address the ethical dilemmas likely to be encountered during the careers of the next generation engineers.