Environmental Chemistry 9e

The field of environmental chemistry has evolved significantly since the publication of the first edition of Environmental Chemistry. Throughout the book's long life, it has chronicled emerging issues such as organochloride pesticides, detergent phosphates, stratospheric ozone depletion, the banning of chlorofluorocarbons, and greenhouse warming. During this time the first Nobel Prize for environmental chemistry was awarded. Written by environmental chemist Stanley Manahan, each edition has reflected the field's shift of emphasis from pollution and its effects to its current emphasis on sustainability. What makes this book so enduring? Completely revised, this ninth edition retains the organizational structure that has made past editions so popular while updating coverage of principles, tools, and techniques to provide fundamental understanding of environmental chemistry and its applications. Rather than immediately discussing specific environmental problems, Manahan systematically develops the concept of environmental chemistry so that when specific pollutions problems are discussed, the background necessary to understand the problem has already been developed. * Provides an overview of environmental and sustainability science and defines environmental and green chemistry * Introduces the special characteristics of water and the environmental chemistry of water * Discusses specific aspects of aquatic chemistry, aquatic biochemistry, and water sustainability and treatment * Presents an examination of the geosphere that includes soil and agricultural chemistry, transgenic crops, and conservation tillage * Covers the nature and environmental chemistry of hazardous wastes and industrial ecology for waste minimization, utilization, and treatment * Includes discussion of the toxicological chemistry of various classes of chemical substances