Atmospheric pollution and environmental change
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Sarah E Metcalfe; Dick Derwent
- ناشر : London : Arnold,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2005
- شابک / ISBN : 9780340719589
Description
Chapter 1 Background 1 1.0 Introduction 1 1.1 The atmosphere and its composition 1 1.2 Atmospheric lifetimes 2 1.3 Transformation and loss 2 1.4 Diffusion and dispersal 4 1.5 Pollutants and their sources 4 1.6 Pollution and change 5 Chapter 2 Identifying atmospheric pollution 7 2.0 Introduction 7 2.1 Monitoring atmospheric composition 7 2.2 Emissions inventories 20 2.3 Conclusions 29 Chapter 3 The global atmosphere 31 3.0 Introduction 31 3.1 The global greenhouse 31 3.2 Atmospheric composition and the climate system 32 3.3 Stratospheric ozone 45 3.4 Atmospheric and climatic change 51 Chapter 4 Regional scale air pollution 53 4.0 Introduction 53 4.1 Acid deposition 53 4.2 Heavy metals 71 4.3 Tropospheric ozone 76 4.4 Regional, global or local? 81 Chapter 5 Urban air quality 83 5.0 Introduction 83 5.1 Global urbanization 83 5.2 Health effects of air pollution 84 5.3 The changing face of urban air pollution 87 5.4 Case studies 89 5.5 Episodes 99 5.6 Indoor air pollution 101 5.7 Conclusions 103 Chapter 6 Modelling atmospheric pollution and environmental change 105 6.0 Introduction 105 6.1 Urban air quality 106 6.2 Regional air quality 114 6.3 Global air quality 125 Chapter 7 Pollution regulation 133 7.0 Introduction 133 7.1 The United Kingdom and western Europe 133 7.2 Eastern Europe 139 7.3 North America 144 7.4 Global action 149 7.5 Economic instruments 153 Chapter 8 Successes, surprises and outstanding issues 156 8.0 Introduction 156 8.1 Successes 156 8.2 Surprises in atmospheric pollution 158 8.3 Matters of scale 160 8.4 Outstanding issues 163 8.5 Do we have the tools to meet the challenges? 166 8.6 Conclusions 167 Glossary 169 References 177 Index 189
