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This new edition of Mark Z. Jacobson's textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and science of the major air pollution and climate problems that face the world today, as well as the energy and policy solutions to those problems. Every chapter has been brought completely up to date with new data, figures and text. There is a new additional chapter on large-scale solutions to climate and air pollution problems. Many more color photographs and diagrams, and many additional examples and homework problems have been added. This is an ideal introductory textbook on air pollution for students taking courses in atmospheric chemistry and physics, meteorology, environmental science, Earth science, civil and environmental engineering, chemistry, environmental law and politics, and city planning and regulation. It will also form a valuable reference text for researchers and an introduction to the subject for general audiences.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Air Pollution and Global Warming: History, Science, and Solutions: Second Edition
- Praise for Air Pollution and Global Warming, 2nd edition
- Title
- Copyright
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Air Pollution and Global Warming
- Chapter 1: Basics and Discovery of Atmospheric Chemicals
- Chapter 2: The Sun, the Earth, and the Evolution of the Earth’s Atmosphere
- Chapter 3: Structure and Composition of the Present-Day Atmosphere
- Chapter 4: Urban Air Pollution
- Chapter 5: Aerosol Particles in the Polluted and Global Atmosphere
- Chapter 6: Effects of Meteorology on Air Pollution
- Chapter 7: Effects of Pollution on Visibility, Ultraviolet Radiation, and Colors in the Sky
- Chapter 8: International Regulation of Urban Smog Since the 1940s
- Chapter 9: Indoor Air Pollution
- Chapter 10: Acid Deposition
- Chapter 11: Global Stratospheric Ozone Reduction
- Chapter 12: The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming
- Chapter 13: Energy Solutions to Air Pollution and Global Warming
- Appendix: Conversions and Constants
- References
- Index
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