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Transnational Environmental Policyby Reiner Grundmann
Routledge 2001; US$ 198.00This book analyses a surprising success story in the field of international environmental policy making; the threat to the ozone layer posed by industrial chemicals, and how it has been averted. more...
Chemistry and Physics of Stratospheric Ozoneby Andrew Dessler
Elsevier 2000; US$ 120.00Chemistry and Physics of Stratospheric Ozone will provide an in-depth account of chemical and physical properties of stratospheric ozone, which will be valuable to a wide audience. The research of the last decade has produced as many arguments as answers, and the author provides a good account of both the accepted and provocative resolutions. * Focuses on the important aspects of stratospheric ozone that are needed to understand most of the literature * Provides extensive discussion of the natural and human-induced changes to the "ozone layer" * Includes homework problems at the end of each chapter more...
Mechanisms of Atmospheric Oxidation of the Alkanesby Jack G Calvert; Richard G Derwent; John J Orlando; Geoffrey S Tyndall; Timothy J Wallington
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 295.00An international team of eminent atmospheric scientists have prepared Mechanisms of Atmospheric Oxidation of the Alkanes as an authoritative source of information on the role of alkanes in the chemistry of the atmosphere. The book includes the properties of the alkanes and haloalkanes, as well as a comprehensive review and evaluation of the existing literature on the atmospheric chemistry of the alkanes and their major atmospheric oxidation products, and the various approaches now used to model the alkane atmospheric chemistry. Comprehensive coverage is given of both the unsubstituted alkanes and the many haloalkanes. All the existing quality measurements of the rate coefficients for the reactions of OH, Cl, O(3P), NO3, and O3 with the alkanes,... more...
Protecting the Ozone Layerby Stephen O. Andersen; K.Madhava Sarma
Earthscan 2002; US$ 87.75In the 1970s the world became aware of a huge danger: the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer by CFCs escaping into the atmosphere and the damage this could do to human health and the food chain. So great was the threat that by 1987 the UN had succeeded in coordinating an international treaty to phase out emissions; which over the following 15 years has been implemented. It has been hailed as an outstanding success. It needed the participation of all the parties: governments industry scientists campaigners NGOs and the media and is a model for future treaties. This volume provides the authoritative and comprehensive history of the whole process from the earliest warning signs to the present. It is an invaluable record for all those... more...
Health Risks of Ozone from Long-range Transboundary Air Pollutionby M. Amann; D. Derwent; B. Forsberg
World Health Organization 2008; US$ 20.00Ozone is a highly oxidative compound formed in the lower atmosphere (from gases originating to a large extent from anthropogenic sources) by photochemistry driven by solar radiation. Owing to its highly reactive chemical properties, ozone is harmful to vegetation, materials and human health. In the troposphere, ozone is also an efficient greenhouse gas.This report summarizes the results of a multidisciplinary analysis to assess the effects of ozone on health. The analysis indicates that ozone pollution affects the health of most of the populations of the WHO European Region, leading to a wide range of health problems. The effects include some 21,000 premature deaths each year in 25 countries in the European Union on and after days with high... more...
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