Environmental forensics

Environmental forensics' is a combination of analytical and environmental chemistry, which is useful in the court room context. It therefore involves field analytical studies and both data interpretation and modelling connected with the attribution of pollution events to their causes. Recent de...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)
Other Authors Hester, R. E., Harrison, Roy M., 1948-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK : RSC Pub., ©2008.
SeriesIssues in environmental science and technology ; 26.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781615833580
1615833587
9781847558343
1847558348
0854049576
9780854049578
ISSN1350-7583 ;
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 175 pages) : illustrations, maps

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Table of Contents:
  • Environmental forensics and the importance of source identification / Stephen M. Mudge
  • Microbial techniques for environmental forensics / Andrew S. Ball, Jules N. Pretty and Rakhi Mahmud
  • Spatial considerations of stable isotope analyses in environmental forensics / James R. Ehlerlinger [and others]
  • Diagnostic compounds for fingerprinting petroleum in the environment / Scott A. Stout and Zhendi Wang
  • Perchlorate : is nature the main manufacturer? / Ioana G. Petrisor and James T. Wells
  • Tracking chlorinated solvents in the environment / Ioana G. Petrisor and James T. Wells
  • Groundwater pollution : the emerging role of environmental forensics / Stanley Feenstra and Michael O. Rivett.