Pollution A to Z
Publisher: MacMillan Reference Books
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover [2 volumes]
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780028657004
Table of contents: title: LIST OF ENTRIES: Abatement  -- Acid Rain -- Activism -- Adaptive Management -- Addams, Jane / Agencies, Regulatory -- Agenda 21 -- Agriculture -- Air Pollution -- Air Pollution Control Act -- Antinuclear Movement -- Arbitration -- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- Arsenic -- Asbestos -- Asthma -- Beneficial Use -- Bioaccumulation -- Biodegradation -- Bioremediation -- Biosolids -- Bottle Deposit Laws -- Brower, David -- Brownfield -- Brundtland, Gro -- Burn Barrels -- Cancer -- Cancer Alley, Louisiana -- Carbon Dioxide -- Carbon Monoxide -- Careers in Environmental Protection -- Carson, Rachel -- Carver, George Washington -- Catalytic Converter -- CFCs (Chlorofluorocarbons) -- Chávez, César E. -- Citizen Science -- Citizen Suits -- Clean Air Act -- Clean Water Act -- Cleanup -- Coal -- Colborn, Theo -- Commoner, Barry -- Composting -- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) -- Consensus Building -- Consumer Pollution -- Cost-benefit Analysis -- Cousteau, Jacques -- Cryptosporidiosis -- DDT (Dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane) -- Diesel -- Dilution -- Dioxin -- Disasters : Chemical Accidents and Spills -- Disasters : Environmental Mining Accidents -- Disasters : Natural -- Disasters : Nuclear Accidents -- Disasters : Oil Spills -- Donora, Pennsylvania -- Dredging -- Dry Cleaning -- Earth Day -- Earth First! -- Earth Summit -- Economics -- Ecoterrorism -- Education -- Ehrlich, Paul -- Electric Power -- Electromagnetic Fields -- Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know -- Emissions Trading -- Endocrine Disruption -- Energy -- Energy, Nuclear -- Energy Efficiency -- Enforcement -- Environment Canada -- Environmental Crime -- Environmental Impact Statement -- Environmental Justice -- Environmental Movement -- Environmental Racism -- Ethics -- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act -- Fish Kills -- Fossil Fuels -- Fuel Cell -- Fuel Economy -- Gauley Bridge, West Virginia -- Gibbs, Lois -- GIS (Geographic Information System) -- Global Warming -- Government -- Green Chemistry -- Green Marketing --/ Green Party -- Green Revolution -- Greenhouse Gases -- Greenpeace -- Groundwater -- Halon -- Hamilton, Alice -- Hayes, Denis -- Hazardous Waste -- Health, Human -- Heavy Metals -- History -- Household Pollutants -- Hypoxia -- Incineration -- Indoor Air Pollution -- Industrial Ecology -- Industry -- Infectious Waste -- Information, Access to -- Injection Well -- Integrated Pest Management -- Ishimure, Michiko -- ISO 14001 -- Labor, Farm -- LaDuke, Winona -- Landfill -- Laws and Regulations, International -- Laws and Regulations, United States -- Lead -- Legislative Process -- Life Cycle Analysis -- Lifestyle -- Light Pollution -- Limits to Growth, The -- Litigation -- Malthus, Thomas Robert -- Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act  -- Mass Media -- Mediation -- Medical Waste -- Mercury -- Methane (CH4) -- Mexican Secretariat for Natural Resources (La Secretaría del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales) -- Mining -- Mining Law of 1872 -- Mixing Zone -- Mold Pollution -- Montréal Protocol -- Nader, Ralph -- NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) -- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) -- National Park Service -- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) -- National Toxics Campaign -- Natural Resource Damage Assessment -- Nelson, Gaylord -- New Left -- NOx (Nitrogen Oxides) -- Noise Control Act of 1972 -- Noise Pollution -- Nonaqueous Phase Liquids (NAPLs) -- Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) -- Nonpoint Source Pollution -- Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) -- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) -- Ocean Dumping -- Ocean Dumping Ban Act -- Oxygen Demand, Biochemical -- Ozone -- Particulates -- PCBs (Polychlorinated Biphenyls) -- Persistent Bioaccumulative and Toxic Chemicals (PBTs) -- Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) -- Pesticides -- Petroleum -- Phosphates -- Plastic -- Point Source -- Politics -- Pollution Prevention -- Pollution Shifting -- Popular Culture -- Population -- Poverty -- Precautionary Principle -- President's Council on Environmental Quality -- Progressive Movement -- Property Rights Movement -- Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) -- Public Participation -- Public Policy Decision Making -- Radioactive Fallout -- Radioactive Waste -- Radon -- Recycling -- Regulatory Negotiation -- Renewable Energy -- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act -- Reuse -- Right to Know -- Risk -- Rivers and Harbors Appropriations Act -- Science -- Scrubbers -- Sedimentation -- Settlement House Movement -- Smart Growth -- Smelting -- Smog -- Snow, John -- Soil Pollution -- Solid Waste -- Space Pollution -- Sprawl -- Strong, Maurice -- Sulfur Dioxide -- Superfund -- Sustainable Development -- Swallow, Ellen -- Systems Science -- Technology, Pollution Prevention -- Terrorism -- Thermal Pollution -- Times Beach, Missouri -- Tobacco Smoke -- Todd, John -- Toxic Release Inventory -- Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) -- Toxicology -- Tragedy of the Commons -- Treaties and Conferences -- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -- U.S. Coast Guard -- U.S. Department of Agriculture -- U.S. Department of the Interior -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -- U.S. Geological Survey -- Ultraviolet Radiation -- Underground Storage Tank -- Unintended Consequences -- Union of Concerned Scientists -- Vehicular Pollution -- Visual Pollution -- VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) -- War -- Warren County, North Carolina -- Waste -- Waste, International Trade in -- Waste, Transportation of -- Waste Reduction -- Waste to Energy -- Wastewater Treatment -- Water Pollution -- Water Pollution : Freshwater -- Water Pollution : Marine -- Water Treatment -- Whistleblowing -- Wise-Use Movement -- Workers Health Bureau -- World Trade Organization -- Writers -- Yucca Mountain -- Zero Population Growth.