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Environmental soil and water chemistry: principles and applications

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For the past 18 years I have been involved in educating undergraduate and graduate
students in the field of soil-water chemistry. Early in my teaching/research career,
students in the college of agriculture in the field of soils had primarily a farming
background. With the passing of time, however, the number of such students declined
dramatically and most universities and colleges across the country established environmental
science units in some form or another. Some of these units represented the
reorganization of soil science departments, forestry departments, and so on; others
represented independent environmental or natural resources departments. Similar
reorganization took place or is currently taking place in geology and engineering
schools. This field reorganization created a need for new textbooks with an emphasis
on examining soil and water as natural resources. In my view, we have not succeeded
in introducing an appropriate textbook on the subject of soil and water chemistry to
cover the needs of this new type of student.

This book is designed to serve as a beginning textbook for college seniors and
beginning graduate students in environmental sciences, and is tailored specifically to
the disciplines of soil science, environmental science, agricultural engineering, environmental
engineering, and environmental geology.

The textbook contains reviews of all the necessary fundamental principles of
chemistry required for understanding soil-water chemistry and quality and soil-water
treatments of chemically polluted soils and waters, for example, heavy-metal contaminated
soil-water, acid drainage, and restoration of sodic soils and brackish waters. The
purpose of the book is to educate college seniors and beginning graduate students about
the toxicity, chemistry, and control of pollutants in the soil-water environment and
about the application of such knowledge to environmental restoration. Special emphasis
is placed on the educational level at which the book is written so that it can be
understood by seniors and beginning graduate students majoring in environmental
science.

The book consists of two major sections-Principles and Application. Each section
covers several major subject areas. The Principles section is divided into the following
parts: I. Water Chemistry and Mineral Solubility; II. Soil Minerals and Surface
Chemical Properties; and III. Electrochemistry and Kinetics. The Application section
also covers several subject areas: IV. Soil Dynamics and Agricultural-Organic Chemicals;
V. Colloids and Transport Processes in Soils; VI. Land-Disturbance Pollution and
Its Control; VII. Soil and Water: Quality and Treatment Technologies. Each subject
area contains one to three chapters.

Some of the parts in the Principles section are written at a level that would be
challenging to a beginning graduate student. After going through these parts, the
student may find it helpful to follow up with the following books, which are also listed
in the reference section: M. B. McBride, Environmental Chemistry of Soils; F. M. M.
Morel and J. G. Hering, Principles and Applications of Aquatic Chemistry; G. Sposito,
The Thermodynamics of Soil Solutions and The Suiface Chemistry of Soils; and
W. Stumm and J. J. Morgan, Aquatic Chemistry.

For the upperclass student or beginning graduate student whose environmental field
does not require detailed knowledge of chemistry, the easiest subsections in the
Principles section (at the instructor's discretion) should be read so that the student
obtains a good conceptual knowledge of soil-water chemistry.
The Application section should be read by all students to familiarize themselves
with (1) current outstanding environmental soil-water problems, (2) concepts of
soil-water chemistry in solving environmental soil-water problems, and (3) current
technologies for soil-water environmental problems.

The Application section alone contains adequate material to be taught as an
undergraduate level course. The Principles section may also be taught as a separate
course.

I hope that this book gives the reader a quantitative understanding of the principles
involved in environmental soil-water chemistry dealing with modeling soil nutrient
availability to plants, soil transport processes, fertilizer management, and soil physical
stability. It should also justify the need for knowledge about the physical chemistry
and natural behavior of potential soil-water contaminants. This requires a background
in water chemistry, soil mineralogy, mineral surface chemistry, chemistry of natural
and/or anthropogenic contaminants, and knowledge of soil-water remediation technologies
and the scientific principles on which they are based.

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New York : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.., 1998

Deskripsi Fisik

TD878.E93; 628.5-dc21

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-471-16515-8

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LINGKUNGAN TANAH DAN AIR
KIMIA TANAH DAN AIR

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