Soil and Water Contamination, Second Edition by Marcel van der Perk offers a comprehensive and integrated overview of the transport and degradation processes of contaminants in soil and water. This study book addresses the key principles for understanding and predicting contamination patterns in soil, groundwater, and surface water. The work stands out for its integrated approach to soil and water contamination as interconnected environmental problems.
Contents
The book is structured into four parts:
- Basic principles of soil and water contamination, including environmental pollution, chemistry, and the properties of soil and water.
- Origin, role and behavior of substances in soil and water, including natural and anthropogenic sources of nutrients, heavy metals, radionuclides and organic substances.
- Transport and fate of substances in soil and water with attention to processes such as advection, dispersion, adsorption and biological degradation, supported by mathematical models.
- Spatial and temporal patterns of contamination with practical examples from research and applications.
Product specifications
- Author: Marcel van der Perk
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint: CRC Press
- Publication date: 2013-11-15
- Number of pages: 428
- ISBN: 9780415893435
- Theme: Pollution and threats to the environment
- BISAC: SCIENCE / Environmental Science
About the author
Marcel van der Perk is a university lecturer in Physical Geography at Utrecht University. His expertise lies in the field of soil and water quality and spatio-temporal environmental modeling. Teaching and research focus on the analysis and modeling of the transport and fate of dissolved and sediment-associated contaminants in soil and water from field to river basin scale.