Environmental Contaminants serves as a tool for environmental professionals to produce technically sound and reproducible scientific evidence. It identifies ways to clean up environmental problems in air, water, soil, sediment and living systems. Ethical issues, environmental management, and professionalism, and environmental economic problems are illustrated to assist the reader in understanding and applying quantitative analysis of environmental problems. - Real life solutions for practicing environmental professionals. - Example problems, sidebars, and case studies to illustrate ethical issues, environmental economic problems, and environmental management. - Explanation of scientific principles and concepts needed for risk assessment, waste management, contaminant transport, environmental hydrogeology, and environmental engineering & chemistry. - A fully supportive glossary, appendices and tables throughout the text contain physical, chemical and biological resources necessary for all environmental practitioners.

Dr. Daniel A. Vallero is an internationally recognized author and expert in environmental science and engineering. He has devoted decades to conducting research, teaching, and mentoring future scientists and engineers. He is currently developing tools and models to predict potential exposures to chemicals in consumer products.

Environmental Contaminants serves as a tool for environmental professionals to produce technically sound and reproducible scientific evidence. It identifies ways to clean up environmental problems in air, water, soil, sediment and living systems. Ethical issues, environmental management, and professionalism, and environmental economic problems are illustrated to assist the reader in understanding and applying quantitative analysis of environmental problems.

• Real life solutions for practicing environmental professionals.
• Example problems, sidebars, and case studies to illustrate ethical issues, environmental economic problems, and environmental management.
• Explanation of scientific principles and concepts needed for risk assessment, waste management, contaminant transport, environmental hydrogeology, and environmental engineering & chemistry.
• A fully supportive glossary, appendices and tables throughout the text contain physical, chemical and biological resources necessary for all environmental practitioners.

Part I: An Environmental Policy Primer:
1.Scientific and Engineering Perspectives of Environmental Contaminants
Part II: Fundamentals of Environmental Science and Engineering
2. Fundamentals of Environmental Physics
3. Applied Contaminant Physics: Fluid Properties
4. Environmental Equilibrium, Partitioning, and Balances
5. Movement of Contaminants in the Environment
6. Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry
7. Chemical Reactions in the Environment
8. Biological Principles of Environmental Contamination
Part III: Contaminant Risk
9. Contaminant Hazards
10. Contaminant Exposure and Risk Calculations
Part IV: Interventions to Address Environmental Contamination
11. Contaminant Sampling and Analysis
12. Intervention: Managing the Risks of Environmental Contamination
13. Environmental Decisions and Professionalism
14. Epilogue: Benzene Metabolism Revisited
Glossary of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Terminology; Appendices; Index