John P. Smol - Pollution of lakes and rivers A Paleoenvironmental Perspective (Key Issues in Environmental Change S.)

Pollution of lakes and rivers a Paleoenvironmental Perspective (Key Issues in Environmental Change S.) - 2002
John P. Smol

Hodder Arnold

ISBN: 0340741465

This work provides an overview of the use of sedimentary records to study the environmental degradation and recovery of lakes and rivers. The book includes the results of modern research, much of which is found in a wide range of technical sources. A distinctive feature of the book is a temporal focus, allowing for discussion of the lessons to be learned from the past in understanding and solving problems of lake and river pollution.

1 - There is no substitute for water
2 - How long is long?
3 - Sediments: an ecosystem's memory
4 - Retreiving the sedimentary archive and establishing the geochronological clock: collecting and dating sediments cores
5 - reading the record stored in sedimets: the present is a key on the past
6 - The paleolimnologist's Rosetta Stone: calibrating indicatoers to environmental variables using surface-sedimet training sets
7 - Acidification: finding the 'smoking gun'
8 - Matals, technological development, and the environment
9 - Persistent organic pollutants: industrially synthesized chemicals 'hopping' across the planet
10 - Mercury - 'the metal that slipped away'
11 - Eutrophication: the environmental consequances of over-fertilization
12 - Erosion: traking the accelerated movement of material from land to water
13 - Species invasions, biomanipulations, and extirpations
14 - Ozone depletion, acid rain, and climatic warming: the problems of multiple stressors
15 - New problems, new challenges
16 - Paleolimnology: a window on the past, a key to our future

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References
Index

Review:

As part of the Arnold KEY ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE series, this major new text provides an authoritative overview of the use of sedimentary records to study the environmental degradation and recovery of lakes and rivers. Written by an internationally acknowledged expert on the subject, the book includes the results of the most recent research and up-to-date data, much of which is found in a wide range of technical sources and normally inaccessible to students. A distinctive feature of the book is its temporal focus, allowing for discussion of the lessons to be learned from the past in understanding and solving current and future problems of lake and river pollution.
In keeping with the aims of the series to provide clear and up to date topics of current environmental concern, John Smol has written to inform rather than impress, using plain language, full explanations, pertinent examples and case studies. A glossary of technical terms precedes a full reference list, which includes annotations relating to useful further reading where appropriate.

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