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ENVS4450: Air, Water and Land Pollution

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Week	Slides	Exercise
1			Introduction
2
3			The Atmosphere ()
4
5			The World's Waters: A Chemical Contaminant Perspective
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7			Soils and Land Contamination
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9			Investigating the Environment
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11			Ecological and Health Effects of Chemicals
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13			Environmental Management
14
			No Class

MODELS

Water

REFERENCES

List of related references

General

Atmosphere

Brimblecomb, P. (1999) Air Pollution and Health History. In: Ayres, J., Maynard, R.L., and Richards, R., Air Pollution and Health. Academic Press.
Godish, T. (2003) Air Quality. CRC Press.
McGregor, G.R. (1999) Basic Meteorology. In: Ayres, J., Maynard, R.L., and Richards, R., Air Pollution and Health. Academic Press.
Kiehl, J.T. and Trenberth, K.E. (1997) Earth's Annual Global Mean Energy Budget. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 78, No. 2, pp.197 -208.
UNEP (1994) Air Pollution in the World's Megacities. Environment, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 5-37.
Williams, M.L. (1999) Patterns of Air Pollution in Developed Countries. In: Ayres, J., Maynard, R.L., and Richards, R., Air Pollution and Health. Academic Press.

Water

Daughton, C.G. (2004) Non-regulated water contaminants: emerging research. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. Vol. 24, pp. 711-732.
Nriagu, J.O. (1996) A History of Global metal Pollution. Science, Vol. 272, pp. 223-224.

Land

De Groot, R.S., Wilson, M.A., and Boumans, R.M.J. (2002) A Typology for the Classification, Description and valuation of Ecosystem Functions, Goods and Services. Ecological Economics, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 393-408.
Boutron, C.F. (1986) Atmospheric Toxic Metals and Metalloids in the Snow and Ice Layers Deposited in Greenland and Antarctica from Prehistoric Times to Present. In: Nriagu, J.O. and Davidson, C.I., Toxic Metals in the Atmosphere. Wiley-Interscience, New York.
Hussain, L. (1986) Chemical Elements as Tracers of Pollutant Transport to a Rural Area. In: Nriagu, J.O. and Davidson, C.I., Toxic Metals in the Atmosphere. Wiley-Interscience, New York.
Lindberg, S.E. (1986) mercury Vapor in the Atmosphere: Three Case Studies on Emission, Deposition, and Plant Uptake. In: Nriagu, J.O. and Davidson, C.I., Toxic Metals in the Atmosphere. Wiley-Interscience, New York.
Pacyna, J.M. (1986) Emission Factors of Atmospheric Trace Elements. In: Nriagu, J.O. and Davidson, C.I., Toxic Metals in the Atmosphere. Wiley-Interscience, New York.
Solomons, W. (1986) Impact of Atmospheric Inputs on the Hydrologic Trace Metal Cycle. In: Nriagu, J.O. and Davidson, C.I., Toxic Metals in the Atmosphere. Wiley-Interscience, New York.

Sampling

Abbott, M.B. and Wolfe, A.P. (2003) Intensive pre-Incan metallurgy recorded by lake sediments from the Bolivian Andes. Science, Vol. 301, 1893-1895.
Johnston, B.R. and Jacoby, J.M. (2003) Cyanobacterial toxicity and migration in a mesotrophic lake in Washington, USA. Hydrobiologia, Vol. 495, pp. 79-91.
Keeling, C.D., Bacastow, R.B., Bainbridge, A.E., Ekdahl, Jr., C.A. Guenther, P.R., and Waterman, L.E. (1976) Atmospheric carbon dioxide variations at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii. Tellus, Vol. 28, No. 6, pp. 538-551.
Keith, L.H. (1990) Environmental Sampling: A Summary. Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 610-617.
Lindberg, S.E., Southworth, G., Prestbo, E.M., Wallschläger, D., Bogle, M.A., and Price, J. (2005) Gaseous methyl- and inorganic mercury in landfill gas from landfills in Florida, Minnesota, Delaware, and California. Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 39, pp. 249-258.
Lorber, M., Pinsky, P., Gehring, P., Braverman, C., Winters, D., and Sovocol, W. (1998) Relationships between dioxins in soils, air, ash, and emissions from a municipal solid waste incinerator emitting large amounts of dioxins. Chemosphere, Vol. 37, pp. 2173-2197.

Ecological and Health Effects of Chemical Pollutants

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