Atmosphere & Air Polution

Atmosphere and Air Pollution is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues. Every article in this set was carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic. The essays in Atmosphere and Air Pollution discuss the many different types of air pollution and its various causes. See below for the complete Table of Contents.

Atmosphere & Air Pollution Table of Contents

Contributors
Acid deposition and acid rain
Aerosols
Air-conditioning
Air pollution
Air-pollution policy
Air Quality Index
Airborne particulates
Asbestos
Atmospheric inversions
Automobile emissions
Bhopal disaster
Bicycles
Biogeochemical cycles
Black lung
Black Wednesday
Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide air capture
Carbon monoxide
Carcinogens
Cash for Clunkers
Catalytic converters
Center for Health, Environment, and Justice
Chicago Climate Exchange
Chlorofluorocarbons
Clean Air Act and amendments
Climate change and human health
Climate models
Climatology
Coal ash storage
Convention on Long-Range Transboundary
Air Pollution
Detoxification
Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane
Diquat
Donora, Pennsylvania, temperature inversion
Dust Bowl
El Niño and La Niña
Europe
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act
Freon
Global warming
Green buildings
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
Hazardous and toxic substance regulation
Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
Incineration of waste products
Indoor air pollution
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change
Krakatoa eruption
Kyoto Protocol
London smog disaster
Malathion
Massachusetts v Environmental Protection
Agency
Medfly spraying
Methane
Molina, Mario
Montreal Protocol
Mount Tambora eruption
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Nitrogen oxides
Noise pollution
North American Free Trade Agreement
Odor pollution
Ozone layer
Pandemics
Pesticides and herbicides
Polluter pays principle
Radioactive pollution and fallout
Radon
Rowland, Frank Sherwood
Secondhand smoke
Silver Bay, Minnesota, asbestos releases
Smog
Solar radiation management
Space debris
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic
Pollutants
Sudbury, Ontario, emissions
Sulfur oxides
Thermal pollution
Thermohaline circulation
Volatile organic compounds
Windscale radiation release
Yokkaichi, Japan, emissions
Bibliography
Category Index
Index

About Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues
An up-to-date A-Z guide on science, policy, and social issues related to the global environment. The Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues assembles information from numerous fields of knowledge relevant to the study of the environmental issues, including biology, geology, anthropology, demographics, genetics, and engineering, and explains the interrelationships of these issues in easily understood terms.

All of the original essays have been evaluated for their currency, and many of them have been either completely replaced or substantially revised to reflect the latest information available. The Further Reading sections accompanying the essays have all been updated.

Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues contains alphabetically arranged articles that range in length from 300 to 3,000 words. They cover a wide variety of topics, including endangered animal species, air pollution, national parks, environmental legislation, oil spills, alternative energy sources, and global climate change. In recognition of the fact that people spend an overwhelming proportion of their time in human-made environments, essays also cover such topics as sick building syndrome, noise pollution, smog, and urban planning.

Each essay begins with a category subhead and the definition of the topic, along with any relevant dates. A brief summary of the environmental significance of the topic follows. Each article of more than 300 words has a list of suggested further readings to aid students who are seeking resources for more in-depth information on the topic at hand. All articles are accompanied by cross-references to related articles in the set, and every article is signed by the academics and other experts who wrote them. The title also includes nearly numerous photographs, charts, graphs, tables, and maps that illuminate the events and concepts detailed in the essays.