Soils and Environmental Quality offers professionals in soil or environmental science an overview of soil science, hydrology, atmospheric chemistry, and pollutant classification.

Features:

• Explores environmental quality from the perspective of soil science
• Emphasizes interactions of potential pollutants with soils and the aquatic and atmospheric environments
• Discusses analytical approaches used in soil, water, and atmospheric sciences
• Covers remediation of contaminated soils and ground water in a comprehensive fashion.

Contents

• Introduction to Environmental Quality
• The Atmosphere and Hydrosphere
• Soil Ecosystems
• Testing: Soils, Waters, Plants, Wastes, Organics
• Soil Nitrogen and Environmental Quality
• Soil Phosphorus and Environmental Quality
• Soil Sulfur and Environmental Quality
• Nutrient Management Planning
• Trace Elements
• Organic Chemicals in the Environment
• The Atmosphere: Global Climate Change and Acidic Deposition
• Remediation of Soil and Ground Water
• Risk Assessment
• The Elements and their Symbols, Atomic Numbers, and Atomic Weights based on the Atomic Mass of 12C = 12
• Conversion Factors for SI and Non-SI Units
• Journals and Periodicals Related to the Environmental Sciences
• Decision Case Studies in the Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education
• Prefixes Used in the SI System of Units

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