A Perspective of Environmental Pollution

This 1979 book was intensely important when first published, looking as it did to contextualise and extensively review the effects of pollution throughout the 1970s.

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The ecological context; 2. Pollution and pollutants; 3. The significance of pathways; 4. Changes in environment; 5. The effects of pollution on targets; 6. Target exposure, risk and the establishment of goals and standards; 7. Monitoring and surveillance; 8. Costs and controls; 9. Pollution as an international problem; 10. The approach to the future; References; Index.