Metcalfe, S. E.

Atmospheric pollution and environmental change / Sarah Metcalfe and Dick Derwent. - London : New York : Hodder Arnold ; Distributed in the U.S. by Oxford University Press, 2005. - xi, 196 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - Key issues in environmental change .

CONTENT

Chapter Background
1.0 Introduction
1.1 The atmosphere and its composition
1.2 Atmospheric lifetimes
1.3 Transformation and loss
1.4 Diffusion and dispersal
1.5 Pollutants and their sources
etc

Chapter 2 Identifying atmospheric pollution
2.0 Introduction
2.1 Monitoring atmospheric composition
2.2 Emissions inventories

Chapter 3 The global atmosphere
3.0 Introduction
3.1 The global greenhouse
3.2 The atmospheric composition and the climate system
3.3 Atmospheric ozone
3.4 Atmospheric and climate change

Chapter 4 Regional scale pollution
4.0 Introduction
4.1 Acid deposition
4.2 Heavy metals
4.3 Tropospheric ozone
4.4 Regional, global or local

Chapter 5 Urban air quality
5.0 Introduction
5.1 Global urbanization
5.2 Health effects of air pollution
5.3 The changing face of urban air pollution
5.4 Case studies
5.5 Episodes
etc.

Chapter 6 Modelling atmospheric pollution and environmental change
6.0 Introduction
6.1 Urban air quality
6.2 Regional air quality
6.3 Global air quality

Chapter 7 Pollution regulation
7.0 Introduction
7.1 The United Kingdom and western Europe
7.2 Eastern Europe
7.3 North America
7.4 Global action
7.5 Economic instruments

Chapter 8 Successes, surprises and outstanding issues
8.0 Introduction
8.1 Successes
8.2 Surprises in atmospheric pollution
8.3 Matters of scale
8.4 Outstanding issues
8.5 Do we have the tools to meet the challenges








Includes bibliographical references (177-188 p.) and index: P 189 - 196

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Air--Pollution.
Global environmental change.
Pollution.
Polluants atmospheric
Changement global (Environnement)
Pollution--Aspect and environnement.

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