Encyclopaedia of Pollution Control (5 Vols-Set)

Contents: Vol. I. State of Pollution: Preface. 1. Ozone depletion. 2. Global climate change: an international perspective. 3. Sea level rise. 4. Antarctica: environmental politics and resource development regimes. 5. Marine resources: an international perspective on exclusive economic Zone of India. 6. Environmental management of offshore oil and gas development. 7. Sustainable development: an international perspective. 8. Introduction to India's pollution. 9. Water quality monitoring. 10. National Air Quality Monitoring Programme. 11. Municipal solid waste management. 12. Ambient air quality monitoring. 13. Pollution related cases in different courts in India. 14. Pollution control implementation. 15. Guidelines for transportation of hazardous wastes. 16. Pollution abatement.

Vol. II. Marine, Nuclear and Thermal Pollution: Preface. 17. Marine ecology and oceanographic environment. 18. Nature of the Oceanic life. 19. Concept in marine pollution. 20. Marine pollutants and their sources. 21. Marine oil pollution. 22. The effects of marine pollution. 23. Controlling marine pollution. 24. Nuclear pollution. 25. Thermal pollution.

Vol. III. Water Pollution and Environmental Analysis: Preface. 26. Water pollution. 27. Hydrosphere. 28. Classification of water pollutants. 29. Analysis of water quality. 30. Techniques of water treatment. 31. Water supply management. 32. Introduction to environmental analysis. 33. Water sampling. 34. Instrumental techniques of water analysis. 35. Bacteriological parameters. 36. Soil sediment sampling. 37. Soil sediment analysis. 38. Introduction to air pollution. 39. Environmental analysis of air. 40. Air sampling and air monitoring. 41. Procedures for air analysis.

Vol. IV. Air and Noise Pollution: Preface. 42. Introduction to air pollution. 43. Green House Effect. 44. Meteorology and inversion temperature. 45. Carbon monoxide. 46. Oxides of nitrogen. 47. Acid rain. 48. Organic pollutants, and photochemical smog. 49. Particulates. 50. Ozone. 51. Cigarettes and smoking. 52. Transport and air pollution. 53. Chemical industry and environmental air pollution. 54. Noise pollution. 55. Nature of noise. 56. Effects of noise on people. 57. Sources of noise. 58. Comparison of noise and air pollutants. 59. Assessment and measurement of study. 60. Basic principles of noise control. 61. Noise from construction and civil engineering works and its control. 62. Noise from industry and its control. 63. Road traffic noise and its control. 64. Aircraft and airport noise.

Vol. V. Agricultural and Solid Waste Pollution: Preface. 65. Concepts in agricultural pollution. 66. Adverse effects of pesticides. 67. Various aspects of agricultural pollution. 68. Noise in the home and its control. 69. Lithosphere and soil. 70. Environmental study of pesticides, Polychlorinated Biphenyls and other Chloro-organic compounds used in agriculture. 71. Solid waste pollution. 72. Solid waste materials. 73. Health hazards of solid-waste treatment. 74. Radioactive wastes. 75. Health aspects of sanitation workers. 76. Secondary hazards from solid wastes. 77. Danger points in solid-waste handling. 78. Availability of waste in India. 79. The costs of solid wastes. 80. Collection and transportation of solid waste. 81. Disposal of solid wastes. 82. Disposing of large waste products. 83. Resource and energy recovery from solid waste. 84. Incineration of refuse. 85. Solid waste management.

"We must guide the human race living in a historic transitional period of burgeoning awareness of the conflict between human activities and environmental constraints, preparing to venture into a new century and a new millennium and to finally help save the fragile and endangered planet with the natural resources already overtaxed and for developing a critical path to governance through modern ideas for reducing the toll exacted in supporting daily life and the ever growing problems on the earth exerting profound pressures on the environment.

As the human race prepares to venture into a new century, conversations and news reports are peppered with references to our fragile and endangered planet. The earth is five billion years old, and over the eons it has endured bombardment by meteors, abrupt shifts in its magnetic fields, dramatic realignment of its land masses, and the advance and retreat of massive ice mountains that reshaped its surface. Life, too, has proved resilient. In the more than three and a half billion years first forms of life emerged, biological species have come and gone, but life has persisted without interruption. In fact, no matter what we humans do, it is unlikely that we could suppress the powerful and chemical forces that drive the earth system.

Although we cannot completely disrupt the earth system, we do affect it significantly as we use energy and emit pollutants in our quest to provide food, shelter, and a host of other products for the world's growing population. We release chemicals that gnaw holes in the ozone shield that protects us from harmful ultraviolet radiation, and we burn fuels that emit heat -- trapping gases that build up in the atmosphere.

This encyclopaedia of pollution control will be quite useful for the libraries of public and private sector organisations, universities, schools and colleges for enabling the users of this Encyclopaedia for acquiring expert knowledge of different pollution control techniques as well as technologies for depolluting mother earth." (jacket)