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Category : Smoke prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Clean Air
Author: Inventing Pollution
Author: Peter ThorsheimPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821446274
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Going as far back as the thirteenth century, Britons mined and burned coal. Britain’s supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal, which powered industry, warmed homes, and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain’s cities and towns filled with ever-greater and denser clouds of smoke. Yet, for much of the nineteenth century, few people in Britain even considered coal smoke to be pollution. Inventing Pollution examines the radically new understanding of pollution that emerged in the late nineteenth century, one that centered not on organic decay but on coal combustion. This change, as Peter Thorsheim argues, gave birth to the smoke-abatement movement and to new ways of thinking about the relationships among humanity, technology, and the environment. Even as coal production in Britain has plummeted in recent decades, it has surged in other countries. This reissue of Thorsheim’s far-reaching study includes a new preface that reveals the book’s relevance to the contentious national and international debates—which aren’t going away anytime soon—around coal, air pollution more generally, and the grave threat of human-induced climate change.
Reverse Acronyms, Initialisms, & Abbreviations Dictionary
Author: “AERO-BACTERIOLOGY OF OCCUPATION ASSOCIATED ENVIRONMENT”
Author: Dr. Apurva K. PathakPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329596994
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
M icroorganisms are ubiquitous in nature; they inhabit soil, water, plant, and animals and sustain their lives on variety of available energy sources. When the growth conditions of these microorganisms in reservoir are favourable, they amplified and disseminated from their habitats to other places. The release of these microorganisms from these reservoirs is either active (self) or passive (environmental factors) in nature. Aerosols formed when the particles of dusts, sprays, mists, smokes and fumes dispersed in gas. When, these organisms as a whole or its parts dispersed in air, known as a primary biological aerosol particles or bioaerosols. The organisms in bioaerosols may be saprophyte, opportunistic or primary pathogens in nature; comprises the agents such as viruses, bacteria, actinomycetes, fungal spores, algae, plant cells, insects, mites, and their fragments, endotoxin from Gram-negative bacteria, mycotoxins and glucans from fungi.
The American Review of Respiratory Disease
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Category : Respiratory organs
Languages : en
Pages : 1798
Book Description
Includes Abstracts section, previously issued separately.
Deepwater Horizon
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and InfrastructurePublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Biomagnetic Monitoring of Particulate Matter
Author: Prabhat RaiPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0128052775
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Air pollution originating from rapid industrialization, urbanization, population growth and economic development has disturbed the urban ecosystems of ecologically sensitive regions like the Indo-Burma hot spot, and they are under severe air pollution stress with limited resources to collect data on what is happening. Air pollutants comprised of both particulate matter (PM) and gaseous pollutants may cause adverse health effects in human, affect plant life and impact the global environment by changing the atmosphere of the earth. It is now well established that urban PM may also contain magnetic particles along with other air pollutants. Biomonitoring of PM through magnetic properties, known as biomagnetic monitoring, measures the magnetic parameters of dust loaded plant leaves, giving a new opportunity to monitor. Compared to existing conventional technologies, biomagnetic monitoring is an eco-friendly technique perfect in urban areas. Biomagnetic Monitoring of Particulate Matter reviews the issues with PM and the potential of these methods to on tropical vegetation on a variety of flora which represent the biodiversity of the Indo-Burma Hot Spot. Bio-magnetic Monitoring of Particulate Matter gives a comprehensive overview of the issue of particulate pollution and monitoring Cases of magnetic biomonitoring across different environments are included to demonstrate this emerging technique as a way to measure particulate pollution Coverage includes a comparison to other techniques as well as why it works well ecological diverse developing areas which are data scarce, like the Indo-Burma Hot Spot A review of the detrimental health impacts of Particulate Matter reinforces the importance for this type of data to be available universally
Annales Geophysicae
Author: Volatile Organic Compounds in Environment
Author: Ki-Hyun KimPublisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3038425125
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Volatile Organic Compounds in Environment" that was published in Environments
Growth, Physiological and Biochemical Response of Ponderosa Pine (pinus Ponderosa) to Ozone
Author: Patrick J. TemplePublisher:
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Category : Plants
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description