Soil and Water Contamination, 2nd Edition

This textbook provides an overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contamination, in such a way that the reader can both understand and predict contaminant patterns in soil, groundwater, and surface water. In contract to most existing texts, soil and water pollution are treated as integrated environmental matter from a geographical/spatial perspective at point, local, regional, and catchment scales. The spatial approach links up with recent developments and trends in environmental legislation and other integrated catchment management initiatives.

The new edition contains several re-written parts, new material on pesticides and pharmaceutical contaminants and a greater number of exercises, case studies and examples. A lecturer package with worked solutions and exams, will be made available upon adoption.

It consists of four coherent parts: 1. Introduction to soil and water contamination; 2. Source, role, and behavior of substances in soil and water; 3. Transport and fate processes of substances in soil and water; and 4. Patterns of substances in soil and water.

Intended for undergraduate and graduate students in Earth and Environmental Sciences, who understand the fundamentals of chemistry, hydrology and soil science; may also serve as a useful reference for professionals.

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition

Part I : An Introduction to Soil and Water Contamination
Chapter 1 : General Introduction
Chapter 2 : Basic Environmental Chemistry
Chapter 3 : Environmental Compartments

Part II : Sources, Role, and Behaviour of Substances in Soil and Water
Chapter 4 : Solid Phase Constituents
Chapter 5 : Major Dissolved Phase Constituents
Chapter 6 : Nutrients
Chapter 7 : Heavy Metals
Chapter 8 : Radionuclides
Chapter 9 : Organic Pollutants

Part III : Transport Processes of Substances in Soil and Water
Chapter 10 : Systems and Models
Chapter 11 : Substance Transport
Chapter 12 : Sediment Transport and Deposition
Chapter 13 : Chemical Transformation
Chapter 14 : Gas Exchange
Chapter 15 : Model Calibration and Validation

Part IV : Patterns of Substances in Soil and Water
Chapter 16 : Patterns in The Soil and in The Vadose Zone
Chapter 17 : Patterns in Groundwater
Chapter 18 : Patterns in Surface Water

References
Appendix I : The Periodic Table of Elements
Appendix 2 : Answers to Exercises
Index