Pollution of the environment causes and effects pdf

A short summary of this paper. Pollution: causes, effects and control. Independent of some of towards monitoring and data analysis in several of the my comments, based on the balance of information contributions.

As would be expected, this difference provided, I recommend the book to libraries and to continues through the sections on process studies, and non-specialists interested in global change and its data analysis and observation, and into Sections 9, 10 impacts on humans and the environment. Clearly, the and 11 on urban and sub-urban transport emissions, contents of this book will get the attention of the reader.

The reviewer cannot help but wonder whether the Sagar Krupa publishers would have been wiser to produce the pro- ceedings of the conference as two separate volumes, rather than as a single text. Caussade, H. Power and C.

Price: the first few sections. This will probably confine the g On the other hand, it is likely that many, or national Conference on Air Pollution Monitoring, even most of the contributions will be published in spe- Simulation and Control, held in Toulouse, France, from cialised primary journals, albeit in marginally different 28 to 30 August Perhaps not surprisingly for a formats, and reach their intended audience by that European conference with this title the authorship has a alternative route.

The 13 sections follow a reasonably logi- appropriate for the moderately well informed, non-spe- cal structure and include more than 80 reasonably cialist reader and fit comfortably in the second half of evenly distributed contributed manuscripts.

As is so the book. They would also appeal to academics teaching often the case in conference proceedings, the individual pollution courses and indeed to students looking for sections are often transparently mass weddings of con- some insight into these aspects of pollution science. The useless. The standard of production is acceptable, even price may therefore deter many academics from recom- good for most of the text, especially bearing in mind the mending the work to their libraries, unless their organi- short time scale to publication for such an extensive sation covers a very wide range of specialised and volume; the variations in style are not intrusive.

On the other hand, as an inte- Section 1 has the all-embracing and somewhat grated volume it does serve to illustrate the complexity ambiguous title Air Pollution and Environmental Mod- of the air pollution problem. Its contents are predominantly heavily mathe- matical, favouring case studies presented in a style best Malcolm S.

Cresser suited to the specialised audience. A notable exception is the more general paper by Moussiopoulos on the state- of-the-art in air pollution modelling and trends and Pollution: Causes, Efects and Control.

This is followed by nine presentations on Edited by Roy M. The Royal Society of turbulence modelling at small and meso scales, with Chemistry, Cambridge, , ISBN o, research in Portugal being given a high profile. Much of pp. Price: E In a field where knowledge and concerns ozone formation, biogenic hydrocarbon effects in Tuni- are changing rapidly and continuously, an up-to-date sia and fog water SO, and NO, chemistry.

It is followed text is vital and thus the book has not only been by a more extensive section on applications of fluid reprinted on a number of occasions, but also has been mechanics to the solution of environmental problems, subjected to major revision, of which this is the latest in again targeting specialist mathematical modellers.

As previously, each chapter is written by Stratosphere, which covers the mechanisms of produc- a distinguished expert or experts in the relevant field tion and destruction of stratospheric 0s. Chapter 10 is from the British academic, research and consultancy entitled Atmospheric Dispersal and Modelling of Air communities. The United Kingdom base of all the Pollutants, covering both near-field and long-range authors results in a book which is strongly biased transport; unfortunately, the opportunity is missed here towards the British situation, although various overseas of placing the latter issue in the context of critical loads case studies are included where appropriate.

It might be and levels, which are covered briefly in terms of effects worth considering in a future edition a section on pol- in Chapter How does pollution fit in that picture? Pollution can take many forms, ranging from organic compounds and other chemical substances to different types of energy. We tend to look skywards when talking about pollution, but this problem is not confined to our skies. The soil in which our fruit and vegetables grow is also suffering its consequences, the effects of which getting to us directly, for instance, through the aforementioned foodstuffs.

The time has come to look after what lies under our feet! Soil pollution is mostly caused by chemical substances produced by human activity. The soil is the skin of the earth, a mantle full of scars, thousand-year-old wrinkles and more recent injuries caused both by man and nature itself. Some of these ulcers are incurable — such as the extinction of species —, whereas others jeopardise health and food security, all of which threaten the well-being of the world's 3.

The constant pollution of the air has very negative effects on nature and on human health. Those long-term and medium-term effects have become problems that are difficult to solve. In this article, we are listing the main 10 negative effects that air pollution is causing worldwide:. Probably global warming is one of the most worrying effects for scientists and environmentalists.

Global warming is a direct consequence of the greenhouse effect, which is produced by the high emission of CO 2 and methane into the atmosphere. Most of these emissions are produced by the industry, so this can be remedied by social responsibility and action by companies and factories. Climate Change is another consequence of global warming. When many of us think of pollution, images of smoggy cities and litter-infested oceans come to mind.

While littering and gasoline-fueled cars are a major contributor to pollution, there are many other influences that are important to be aware of. Essentially, pollution occurs when substances are introduced to the environment that have harmful effects, damaging the quality of land, water, and air.

The cause is the accumulation of solid and liquid waste materials that contaminate groundwater and soil. These waste materials are often referred to as municipal solid waste MSW , which includes both hazardous and non-hazardous waste. Environmental pollution has existed for centuries but only started to be significant following the industrial revolution in the 19th century. The elements involved are not produced by nature, and the destroying process can vary from a few days to thousands of years that is, for instance, the case for radioactive pollutants.

In other words, pollution takes place when nature does not know how to decompose an element that has been brought to it in an unnatural way. Pollution must be taken seriously, as it has a negative effect on natural elements that are an absolute need for life to exist on earth, such as water and air. Indeed, without it, or if they were present in different quantities, animals — including humans — and plants could not survive. Theory of Environmental Pollution is one among them.