Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780632053834
Year: 2000
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 512


Description:
The first edition of this book established a niche as the only
volume with a wide ranging review of analytical chemistry having a
focus specific to environmental science.


This new edition has been thoroughly revised to take full
account of the rapid changes and development in the field over the
past five years. Separation science, atomic spectroscopy and
speciation determinations are areas in which significant
developments have been made, and these are reflected in the new
edition. The importance of the assessment of the effects of
pollutants on real systems has been recognised by the restructuring
of the chapter on biological testing and incorporation of a new one
on environmental toxicology. Self-assessment questions have been
added.


Environmental science was one of the key concerns of the latter
part of the twentieth century and will continue to be into the
twenty-first. Concerns for environmental protection and public
health worldwide have led to extensive legislation. The
investigation and modelling of environmental systems, together with
the implementation of laws and regulations, has led to a demand for
a large number of environmental measurements, many of which are
made by techniques falling within the broad range of analytical
chemistry. Many professionals make regular use of data obtained by
techniques of analytical chemistry. Thus, although not primarily
analytical chemists or even chemists, they need sufficient
knowledge of the background of analytical chemistry to judge the
quality and limitations of the environmental data obtained. Very
much the same situation arises in the academic world, where
students are inv