While this book is in its first edition, it nonetheless has a lengthy pedigree, which derives from a book entitled Understanding Our Environment: An Introduction to Environmental Chemistry and Pollution, which ran to three editions, the last of which was published in 1999. Understanding Our Environment has proved very popular as a student textbook, but changes in the way that the subject i…
Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry, 2nd edition, is written with two major objectives in mind. The first of these is to provide a reader having little or no background in chemistry with the fundamentals of chemistry needed for a trade, profession, or curriculum of study that requires a basic knowledge of these topics. The second objective of the book is to provide a basic coverage of m…