Encyclopaedia of Environmental Soil and Marine Pollution (In 2 Volumes)

Encyclopaedia of Environmental Soil and Marine Pollution, organized in two volumes, is a veritable mine of authoritative information on the menacing soil and marine pollution conditions endangering plant and marine lives. Pollution is "the wrong amount of the wrong things in the wrong place at the wrong time". Soil connects the biosphere to a source of mineral elements in the lithosphere, the earth’s rock mantle, to a source of gaseous elements in the atmosphere, and to a source of water from the hydrosphere. It plays critical roles in the earth’s carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and hydrologic cycles. Introduction by man, directly of indirectly, of substances or energy into the marine environment (including estuaries) resulting in such deleterious effects as harm to living resources, hazards to human health, hindrance to marine activities including fishing, impairment of quality for use of sea water and reduction of amenities. The present encyclopaedia will prove useful and informative to researchers and teachers besides the general readers, policy planners and activities in the field of environment.