Chemistry of the Environment
by Thomas G. Spiro, William M. Stigliani · Spiro & Stigliani
Undergraduate text organized around energy, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, and the biosphere, tracing pollution problems back to underlying chemical mechanisms. Readers gain a quantitative basis for evaluating claims about climate, ozone depletion, acid rain, and water quality.
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