Acid Rain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Acid Rain write by Peggy J. Parks. This book was released on 2005-10. Acid Rain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses how acid rain has affected our natural resources.
Poisonous Skies
Poisonous Skies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poisonous Skies write by Rachel Emma Rothschild. This book was released on 2019-07-11. Poisonous Skies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The climate change reckoning looms. As scientists try to discern what the Earth’s changing weather patterns mean for our future, Rachel Rothschild seeks to understand the current scientific and political debates surrounding the environment through the history of another global environmental threat: acid rain. The identification of acid rain in the 1960s changed scientific and popular understanding of fossil fuel pollution’s potential to cause regional—and even global—environmental harms. It showed scientists that the problem of fossil fuel pollution was one that crossed borders—it could travel across vast stretches of the earth’s atmosphere to impact ecosystems around the world. This unprecedented transnational reach prompted governments, for the first time, to confront the need to cooperate on pollution policies, transforming environmental science and diplomacy. Studies of acid rain and other pollutants brought about a reimagining of how to investigate the natural world as a complete entity, and the responses of policy makers, scientists, and the public set the stage for how societies have approached other prominent environmental dangers on a global scale, most notably climate change. Grounded in archival research spanning eight countries and five languages, as well as interviews with leading scientists from both government and industry, Poisonous Skies is the first book to examine the history of acid rain in an international context. By delving deep into our environmental past, Rothschild hopes to inform its future, showing us how much is at stake for the natural world as well as what we risk—and have already risked—by not acting.
The Effects of Air Pollution and Acid Rain on Fish, Wildlife, and Their Habitats
The Effects of Air Pollution and Acid Rain on Fish, Wildlife, and Their Habitats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Effects of Air Pollution and Acid Rain on Fish, Wildlife, and Their Habitats write by Wayne Potter. This book was released on 1982. The Effects of Air Pollution and Acid Rain on Fish, Wildlife, and Their Habitats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain write by Dr Peter Reed. This book was released on 2014-04-28. Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Robert Angus Smith (1817-1884) was a Scottish chemist and a leading investigator into what came to be known as 'acid rain'. This study of his working life, contextualized through discussion of his childhood, education, beliefs, family, interests and influences sheds light on the evolving understanding of sanitary science during the nineteenth century. Born in Glasgow and initially trained for a career in the Church of Scotland, Smith instead went on to study chemistry in Germany under Justus von Liebig. On his return to Manchester in the 1840s, Smith's strong Calvinist faith lead him to develop a strong concern for the insanitary environmental conditions in Manchester and other industrial towns in Britain. His appointment as Inspector of the Alkali Administration in 1863 enabled him to marry his social concerns and his work as an analytical chemist, and this book explores his role as Inspector of the Administration from its inception through battles with chemical manufacturers in the courts, to the struggle to widen and tighten the regulatory framework as other harmful chemical nuisances became known. This study of Smith’s life and work provides an important background to the way that 'chemical' came to have such negative connotations in the century before publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. It also offers a fascinating insight into the changing landscape of British politics as regulation and enforcement of the chemical industries came to be seen as necessary, and is essential reading for historians of science, technology and industry in the nineteenth century, as well as environmental historians seeking background context to the twentieth-century environmental movements.
Critical Loads and Dynamic Risk Assessments
Critical Loads and Dynamic Risk Assessments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Loads and Dynamic Risk Assessments write by Wim de Vries. This book was released on 2015-04-20. Critical Loads and Dynamic Risk Assessments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a unique overview of research methods over the past 25 years assessing critical loads and temporal effects of the deposition of air pollutants. It includes critical load methods and applications addressing acidification, eutrophication and heavy metal pollution of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Applications include examples for each air pollution threat, both at local and regional scale, including Europe, Asia, Canada and the US. The book starts with background information on the effects of the deposition of sulphur, nitrogen and heavy metals and geochemical and biological indicators for risk assessments. The use of those indicators is then illustrated in the assessment of critical loads and their exceedances and in the temporal assessment of air pollution risks. It also includes the most recent developments of assessing critical loads and current and future risks of soil and water chemistry and biodiversity under climate change, with a special focus on nitrogen. The book thus provides a complete overview of the knowledge that is currently used for the scientific support of policies in the field of air pollution control to protect ecosystem services.
