
Twenty years on from the first edition of Pollution and the topic remains high in the public awareness. Environmental pollution is now a major area of research, consultancy and technological development and is a priority for the political agendas of both the developed...

Pollution: Causes, Effects and Control is the fourth edition of a best-selling introductory level book dealing with chemical and radioactive pollution in its broadest sense. The scope of the book ranges from the sources of pollutants and their environmental behaviour, to their...

This updated and expanded third edition provides an essentially introductory coverage of the subject of pollution. It contains new chapters on: marine pollution; soils and contaminated land; and the effects of air pollutant exposure on human health.