Texts for Environmental Chemistry (Senior and Graduate Levels)

Introductory Chemistry for the Environmental Sciences

Harrison, R.M., S.J. de Mora, S. Rapsomanikis, and W.R. Johnston.

1996 Cambridge University Press.

ISBN 0 521 48172 4 (hardback), 0 521 48450 2 (paperback)

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Reviews

As you can tell from the table of contents, this book is an excellent, applied review of first-year chemistry and quantitative analysis; but I would not recommend it as an introductory text for environmental sciences. However, I’m not sure where it fits in the scheme of college education. The second edition has some excellent additions (details the basics of environmental chemistry: global warming, ozone depletion, smog generation, pesticides, etc.). Perhaps this could serve as a good basic overview of environmental chemistry, with some supplemental material. Personally I do not feel that it is inclusive enough to be used as an environmental chemistry text, but it could be an excellent reference text. The text could possibly be used as an introduction chemistry course for an engineering graduate program, but probably not an environmental engineering program (it lacks significant detail).

Does not contain worked problems in the chapters. It does have limited end-of-chapter problems.

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-Frank M. Dunnivant, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA.