Environmental Science and Engineering (Second Edition)
Aloka Debi
Price
625
ISBN
9788173718113
Language
English
Pages
268
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
180 x 240 mm
Year of Publishing
2012
Territorial Rights
World
Imprint
Universities Press

Environmental Science and Engineering has been specially designed to explain what the environment is, how it is polluted and destroyed, the effects of pollution, and how effectively the damage to the environment can be controlled. The second edition of the book incorporates more insights into prevention against pollution, new case studies, as well as a chapter on ‘Recent Sources of Pollution’ that includes marine, thermal and nuclear pollution.

This book

  • discusses the acts and laws that govern pollution
  • provides a number of relevant case studies
  • suggests solutions to the environmental problems
  • provides extensive exercises
  • is based on the undergraduate syllabus prescribed by the UGC for engineering students throughout India

Dr Aloka Debi is Retired Professor of Chemistry, Kingston Engineering College, Kolkata and Retired Senior Lecturer in Chemistry and Environmental Science, Government Polytechnic, Kolkata. She has earlier published five textbooks in Environmental Engineering and Chemistry, in English and Bengali.

  • Environment
  • Resources
  • Population
  • Ecology
  • Biodiversity
  • Air pollution
  • Water pollution
  • Land pollution
  • Noise pollution
  • Recent sources of pollution
  • Environmental legislation (Acts)
  • Social issues and the environment