Chlorine and the Environment: An Overview of the Chlorine Industry (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780792367970)

This is the first book to examine comprehensively the chlorine industry and its effects on the environment. It covers not only the history of chlorine production, but also looks at its products, their effects on the global environment, and the international legislation which controls their use, release, and disposal.
Individual chapters are dedicated to subjects such as releases of organochlorines into the environment, and the environmental impact of ozone depletion, providing simple explanations of these complex issues. These are backed up with case studies of landmark events in the history of the chlorine industry - for example the Seveso explosion or the Yusho and Yu-Cheng mass poisonings.
With a clear, concise text and numerous compilations of critical data, this book will prove an invaluable source reference for environmental scientists, students, and policy makers with an interest in this subject.

Author: Ruth Stringer,Paul Johnston
ISBN-10: 0792367979
ISBN-13: 9780792367970
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2001
Pages: 430
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.76lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d