Soil Pollution

This graduate-level text and reference work is unique among the soil literature, dealing as it does with the interdisciplinary fields of soil pollution and remediation. It starts off with a thorough and comprehensible introduction to the relevant fundamentals of mineralogy, chemistry, and soil properties. Readers are thus well prepared to understand the biochemical aspects of soil remediation then presented. Mathematical modeling and soil monitoring are covered in a way that enables readers from various disciplines to acquire enough scientific literacy to facilitate further research. The book's holistic approach and narrative style are complemented by numerous and detailed illustrations. Soil Pollution is an asset not only to graduate students and instructors, but also to professionals from the environmental and agricultural sciences, as it provides an integrated overview of previously separately treated material.

Soil - Its Nature and Origin.- The Origin of Soil.- Soil Constituents.- Soil Properties.- Soil Types and Classification.- Soil Degradation.- Soil Pollution.- Major Types of Soil Pollutants.- Sources of Soil Pollution.- Pollution Mechanisms and Soil-Pollutants Interaction.- Pollutants- Alteration, Transformation, and Initiation of Chemical Changes within the Soil.- Monitoring of Soil Pollution.- Monitoring and Monitoring Plans.- Biological Monitoring.- Modelling of Soil Pollution.- Models and Their Construction.- Soil Remediation.- Planning and Realisation of Soil Remediation.