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Urban Watersheds - Geology, Contamination, Environmental Regulations, and Sustainability (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Urban Watersheds - Geology, Contamination, Environmental Regulations, and Sustainability (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Understanding that the natural world beneath our feet is the point
at which civilization meets the natural world is critical to the
success of restoration and prevention efforts to reduce contaminant
impacts and improve the global environment because of one simple
fact - contaminants do not respect country borders. Contaminants
often begin their destructive journey immediately after being
released and can affect the entire planet if the release is in just
the right amount, at just the right location, and at just the right
time. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Urban Watersheds,
Geology, Contamination, Environmental Regulations, and
Sustainability, Second Edition presents more than 30 years of
research and professional practice on urban watersheds from the
fields of environmental geology, geochemistry, risk analysis,
hydrology, and urban planning. The geological characteristics of
urbanized watersheds along with the physical and chemical
properties of their common contaminants are integrated to assess
risk factors for soil, groundwater, and air. This new edition
continues to examine the urban environment and the geology beneath
urban areas, evaluates the contamination that affects watersheds in
urban regions, and addresses redevelopment strategies. Features of
the Second Edition: Examines contaminants and the successes of
environmental regulation worldwide and highlights the areas that
need improvement Describes several advances in investigation
techniques in urban regions that now provide a huge leap forward in
data collection, resolution, and accuracy Explains the importance
of understanding the geological and hydrogeologic environments of
urban and developed regions Provides new and enhanced methods
presented as a sustainability model for assessing risks to human
health and the environment from negative human-induced contaminant
impacts Includes a new chapter that surveys how environmental
regulations have been successful or have failed at protecting the
air, water, and land in urban areas Suitable for use as a textbook
and as a professional practice reference, the book includes case
studies on successful and unsuccessful approaches to contaminant
remediation as well as practical methods for environmental risk
assessment. PowerPoint (R) presentations of selected portions of
the book are available with qualifying course adoption. Daniel T.
Rogers is currently the Director of Environmental Affairs at Amsted
Industries Inc. in Chicago, Illinois. His writings address
environmental geology, hydrogeology, geologic vulnerability and
mapping, contaminant fate and transport, urban geology,
environmental site investigations, contaminant risk, brownfield
redevelopment, and sustainability. He has taught geology and
environmental chemistry at Eastern Michigan University and the
University of Michigan.
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