Environmental chemistry

Developed, developing and emerging economies worldwide are collectively contributing multiple stresses on aquatic ecosystems by the release of numerous contaminants.

Green Chemistry Approaches to Environmental Sustainability: Status, Challenges and Prospective provides a comprehensive and complete overview of the emerging discipline of green chemistry and fundamental chemical principles.

This two-volume work is a testament to the increasing interest in the role of microbes in sustainable agriculture and food security.

This book presents a detailed history of chemical warfare development during the First World War and discusses design approaches to gas masks and the performance of new filter materials that decontaminate chemical warfare agents (CWA) when applied in the vapor phase.

Heavy metal phytotoxicity has been known for more than a century.

The book covers the chemistry of various nanosponges, as well as the methods for synthesizing them and altering them chemically, as well as their characterization and uses in environmental remediation.

Functional and structural nanomaterials are emerging materials that display interesting physical and chemical properties because of their size and surface area to volume ratio.

The first volume in this new text book series covers comprehensively relevant aspects related to the appearance and characterisation of fossil matter in the geosphere such as kerogen, oil, shales and coals.

This is the second of two volumes that together provide a comprehensive overview of the current sustainable and low-cost wastewater treatment technologies applied in communities that lack the financial and technical resources needed for an environmental, disease prevention and health nexus.

The year 2022 has been declared by the United Nations as the "e;International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development"e;.

This book highlights the environmental and economic benefits of recycling in textiles and fashion; vis-a-vis virgin textiles.

The changes in temperature and rainfall that will come with climate change combined with populations that are growing but also becoming more condensed will put a great deal of stress on our wastewater systems.

This book presents the fundamentals of the separation mechanism of the environmentally benign polymer-based aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS) and applications of ATPS to separation and/or enrichment of inorganic compounds with batch extraction and chromatographic techniques.

This book provides an in-depth overview of agrochemicals, their development, regulation, and environmental impact.

"e;The chemical laboratory is actually not a dangerous place to work in, but it demands a reasonable prudence on the part of the experimenters and instructers, to keep it a safe place.

This book reviews the latest research and developments concerning the biodiversity and biocontamination assessment of aquatic ecosystems in Poland.

Presented here are authoritative and up-to-date assessments of the homogenous and heterogenous chemical and physical processes occuring in the troposphere and stratosphere, especially during the "e;ozone hole"e; event.

This volume focuses on modelling the fate of chemicals in the environment and the human body to arrive at an integrated exposure assessment.

Acridids (grasshoppers and locusts) can range from being rare curiosities to abundant menaces.

A massive phytoplankton bloom, locally termed "e;brown tide"e;, suddenly appeared in Long Island marine bays in 1985, colored the water a dark brown, decimated eelgrass beds and caused catastrophic starvation and recruitment failure of commercially important bay scallop populations.

This book reviews recent research and applications of chitin and chitosan, as natural alternatives of fossil fuel products, in medicine and pharmacy, agriculture, food science and water treatment.

Reinhaltung der Luft wird hier als fachübergreifendes Thema behandelt.

This book was prepared for publication by an International Working Group of experts under the auspices of COGEOENVIRONMENT - the Commission of the International Union of Geological Sciences (lUGS) on Geological Sciences for Environmental Planning and lUGS-GEM (Commission on Geosciences for Environmental Management).

This volume compiles and discusses the fundamental and multidisciplinary knowledge on adsorption and separation processes using zeolites as adsorbents.

Nanomaterials have recently garnered significant attention and practical importance for heterogeneous electrocatalysis.

This book serves the environmentalists to track the development of photocatalytic materials and technology in the present context and to explore future trends.

This current edition explores new tests for genotoxicity testing, along with other well-known techniques.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the origins, occurrences, and remediation strategies for organic micropollutants in the environment.

The term "e;heavy metals"e; is used as a group name of toxic metals and metalloids (semimetals) causing contaminations and ecotoxicity.

Hazardous Waste Management: An Overview of Advanced and Cost-Effective Solutions includes the latest practical knowledge and theoretical concepts for the treatment of hazardous wastes.

This book presents comprehensive chapters on the latest research and applications in wastewater treatment using green technologies.

This volume uses chemometric mathematical modelling approaches to investigate geographic areas at risk of ecological degradation due to pollution.

Integrated assessment of running waters is the focal point of the European Water Framework Directive.

The textile industry segment has been continuously expanding and it is reported that the global market was US$1000 billion in 2020.

Der Gedanke, ein Buch zum Thema "Chemie und Umwelt" zu schreiben, ent­ stand aufgrund unserer Erfahrungen mit einem Seminar desselben Titels, das in den Wintersemestern 1987/88 und 1988/89 am Physikalisch-Chemischen Institut der Universität Heidelberg stattfand.

Antibiofouling Membranes for Water and Wastewater Treatment: Principles and Applications covers most recent advances, challenges, and industrial applications of antibiofouling membranes to help in reducing cost and increasing sustainability of long term-filtration performance of membranes in water and wastewater treatment.

The steadily increasing presence of both natural and anthropogenic pollutants in our environment poses a considerable challenge, given the recalcitrance of many of these pollutants.

A unique contribution to the literature on acidic deposition, this volume offers a collection of in-depth analysis of the key mechanisms governing forest response to acidic inputs.

This book reviews the latest developments concerning the analysis, fate, behaviour and toxicity of pyrethroid insecticides.

With its 104 chapters, this Encyclopedia of aquatic ecotoxicology reveals the diversity of issues, problems and challenges that have faced, and are facing today, receiving environments.

This book reviews air pollutants and their effects on human health, biodiversity, and environmental quality in the context of the One Health framework.

Saving Our Planet analyses the changes (both positive and negative) that have occurred in the environment in the past two decades.

The book presents recent remediation techniques for heavy metal contamination in wastewater, with a focus on recently-developed and sustainable materials such as metal oxides and their composites, two-dimensional materials, organic-inorganic ion exchange materials, nanomaterials, bagasse, and olive-oil waste chelating materials.