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基本説明
Based on the author's popular course at UCLA.
Full Description
This second edition of Richard Turco's successful book, Earth Under Siege, provides a basic understanding of how our physical environment functions and how human activities affect it. Intended to educate the lay person-especially the policy makers, business administrators, and political leaders of the future-about some of the most pressing problems facing our modern world, this important book effectively describes the realities of environmental pollution and global change. It provides a comprehensive description of the natural environment and builds a foundation on which the science and policy of current environmental issues can be understood, including key local, regional, and global issues and their implications for society and human life.
Contents
1. Introduction ; Part I: Fundamentals ; 2. Air - the medium of change ; 3. Basic Physical and chemical principles ; 4. The evolution of earth ; Part II: Local and regional pollution issues ; 5. Sources and dispersion of pollutants ; 6. Smog: the urban syndrome ; 7. Effects of exposure to pollution ; 8. Indoor air pollution ; 9. Acid rain ; Part III: Global-scale pollution issues ; 10. Global biogeochemical cycles ; 11. The climate machine ; 12. Greenhouse warming ; 13. The stratospheric ozone layer ; 14. Global environmental engineering ; Appendix A. Scientific notation, units, and constants ; Appendix B. Demonstrations of common natural phenomena ; Appendix C. Radiation nomenclature ; Index
