Principles of Environmental Chemistry

By James E. Girard

Book Overview

Includes access to the Student Companion Website

Appropriate for students with a general chemistry background, Principles of Environmental Chemistry helps students understand the underlying chemical processes that are operating in the environment while demonstrating how difficult it is to measure these systems. The author emphasizes that all living and nonliving parts of our environment are comprised of chemicals and that all of the natural processes continuously occurring in the environment involve chemical reactions. With this concept of interdependence, students begin to see that without some understanding of chemistry, it is impossible to fully understand environmental issues such as ozone depletion, global warming, air and water pollution, and the hazards of radioactivity. The Third Edition includes a new chapter on Green Chemistry as well as numerous updates throughout to address the changes in the field.

Key Features:

- Includes a new chapter on Green Chemistry.
- A new key term glossary is now included at the end of the text.
- New feature boxes assess students understanding of chapter material with analytical questions and problems.
- Includes additional chemical equations throughout the text reinforce important concepts.
- Available with a new electronic student study guide and solutions manual
- Instructor's resources include PowerPoint(R) Lecture Outlines, answers to end of chapter problems, and a testbank.
- A student companion website includes chapter outlines, interactive glossary, flashcards, and weblinks.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1449693520
• ISBN13: 9781449693527
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
• Length: 712 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.3" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Valuable text for any level

Principles of Environmental Chemistry is an in-depth and easy to follow textbook. I recently completed an undergraduate course which used this book as the only major text, and I found it more than sufficent. It does an excellent job of providing real world applications of chemical knowledge to address the major environmental concerns of our time. It should also be noted that while I came from a strong chemistry background, some of the students in the course did not. While my knowledge certainly gave me an advantage, it was in no means necessary for understanding the text. Despite the vast coverage of chemical issues in the environment, the book is user friendly to those coming from biological or even social science backgrounds. It also offers quick reviews of organic chemistry and the like, but wisely puts such things in the appendix opposed to bogging down the chapters. I would highly recommend this textbook for any course or person seeking to explore environmental issues from a chemical perspective. It is valuable for chemistry majors and minors, but still accessible to those in other fields.

A superb resource for intermediate to advanced coursework

Principles Of Environmental Chemistry is a student-friendly textbook that focuses upon the chemical foundations of environmental science. Including analytical techniques and methods used to measure pollutants in the environment, worked-out, in-chapter problems and problem sets at the end of each chapter, chapters on fossil fuels, nuclear energy, and renewable energy such as hydrogen fuel cells, an appendix with a helpful review of organic chemistry, and more, Principles Of Environ-mental Chemistry is a superb resource for intermediate to advanced coursework or self-study. Extensive black-and-white illustrations and chemical equations help to crystalize the examples given in this solid and readily understandable instructional resource.