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Author : Peggy J. Parks
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Acid rain
ISBN : 0737726288
Discusses how acid rain has affected our natural resources.
Author : Gerald R. Visgilio,Diana M. Whitelaw
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387375625
This book is the result of a conference held biannually at the Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies at Connecticut College. It uses an interdisciplinary approach to focus on important ecological impacts of acid deposition. The book combines research findings and the policy analyses of experts from different academic disciplines with the positions advanced by representatives of various nongovernmental organizations.
Author : Donald Adams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461583509
Concern about acid deposition, commonly referred to as acid rain, as a widespread pollution problem with severe ecological consequences has heightened public awareness. Many authorities fear that acid deposition may be the worst environmental crisis of our industrialized society because of both the global implications and possible widespread, irreversible damage to lakes, soils, and forested ecosystems. Neither state nor international boundaries are exempt from the transport and deposition of airborne pollutants resulting from local and distant emission sources. The dilemma and debate will continue as long as society requires fossil fuels for its energy needs without regard to emission constraints. This book started as a modest attempt to provide a status report on atmospheric transport, the chemical processes which produce acidifying agents, and resultant ecological and economic consequences. The materials in this book have been substantially revised from those presented at the conference in 1983. It became obvious that additional chapters were required when sudden and profound changes occurring in European forests were reported. It is felt that perhaps such damages could be an early warning to forested ecosystems in the northeastern United States and Canada as well as other places throughout the world. Most importantly, it is essential that gained scientific knowledge be translated into required legislation - a section on Policy Issues was incorporated to address these concerns. It is hoped that the reader will become informed and concerned enough to be involved in ll this IIglobal debate. Donald D. Adams Halter P.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Acid pollution of rivers, lakes, etc
ISBN : PSU:000014795756
Author : John McCormick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134053858
Acid rain was one of the major environmental issues of the 1980s. But while industrialized countries have taken measures to reduce the emissions that lead to acidification, the problems have not gone away. Trees are still dying, lakes are still being made uninhabitable; buildings are still corroding; and human health is still suffering. The most worrying trend is the repetition in the industrializing countries of Asia and Latin America of the problems that have long afflicted Europe and North America. More than 10 years after it was first published, the highly acclaimed Acid Earth still provides the only global view of acidification, and remains the standard text on the subject. Chapters on the causes, effects and growing scientific understanding of acid pollution, and the possible solutions, are followed by detailed studies of the political struggles involved in responding to acid damage in western and eastern Europe, the US and the newly industrializing countries. Written in non-technical language for people interested in the problems of the environment, Acid Earth calls for a renewed sense of public and political will to bring the problems of acid pollution under control. The book also makes valuable reading for specialists and students. Originally published in 1992
Author : Kenneth E. Wilkening
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0262265095
Acid Rain Science and Politics in Japan is a pioneering work in environmental and Asian history as well as an in-depth analysis of the influence of science on domestic and international environmental politics. Kenneth Wilkening's study also illuminates the global struggle to create sustainable societies. The Meiji Restoration of 1868 ended Japan's era of isolation- created self-sufficiency and sustainability. The opening of the country to Western ideas and technology not only brought pollution problems associated with industrialization (including acid rain) but also scientific techniques for understanding and combating them. Wilkening identifies three pollution-related "sustainability crises" in modern Japanese history: copper mining in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which spurred Japan's first acid rain research and policy initiatives; horrendous post-World War II domestic industrial pollution, which resulted in a "hidden" acid rain problem; and the present-day global problem of transboundary pollution, in which Japan is a victim of imported acid rain. He traces the country's scientific and policy responses to these crises through six distinct periods related to acid rain problems and argues that Japan's leadership role in East Asian acid rain science and policy today can be explained in large part by the "historical scientific momentum" generated by efforts to confront the issue since 1868, reinforced by Japan's cultural affinity with rain (its "culture of rain"). Wilkening provides an overview of nature, culture, and the acid rain problem in Japan to complement the general set of concepts he develops to analyze the interface of science and politics in environmental policymaking. He concludes with a discussion of lessons from Japan's experience that can be applied to the creation of sustainable societies worldwide.
Author : Rachel Emma Rothschild
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226634715
The climate change reckoning looms. As scientists try to discern what the Earth’s changing weather patterns mean for our future, Rachel Rothschild seeks to understand the current scientific and political debates surrounding the environment through the history of another global environmental threat: acid rain. The identification of acid rain in the 1960s changed scientific and popular understanding of fossil fuel pollution’s potential to cause regional—and even global—environmental harms. It showed scientists that the problem of fossil fuel pollution was one that crossed borders—it could travel across vast stretches of the earth’s atmosphere to impact ecosystems around the world. This unprecedented transnational reach prompted governments, for the first time, to confront the need to cooperate on pollution policies, transforming environmental science and diplomacy. Studies of acid rain and other pollutants brought about a reimagining of how to investigate the natural world as a complete entity, and the responses of policy makers, scientists, and the public set the stage for how societies have approached other prominent environmental dangers on a global scale, most notably climate change. Grounded in archival research spanning eight countries and five languages, as well as interviews with leading scientists from both government and industry, Poisonous Skies is the first book to examine the history of acid rain in an international context. By delving deep into our environmental past, Rothschild hopes to inform its future, showing us how much is at stake for the natural world as well as what we risk—and have already risked—by not acting.
Author : Peter Brimblecombe,Hiroshi Hara,Daniel Houle,Martin Novak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402058851
This book looks at the sources and composition of the atmosphere and rainfall, with particular attention on acidifying components and those that affect ecosystems. It further widens the subject to look at trace metals. It includes papers on the impact of deposition on soils and forests and the recovery of the natural environment. Work on critical loads makes a contribution to understanding the degree to which deposition must be reduced to limit its impact.
Author : S. Beilke,A.J. Elshout
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1983-05-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9027715882
Proceedings of the EEC Workshop organized within the Framework of the Concerted Action "Physico-Chemical Behaviour of Atmospheric Pollutants", held in Berlin, 9 September 1982
Author : Carter N. Lane
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1590334612
'Acid rain' is a broad term used to describe several ways that acids fall out of the atmosphere. A more precise term is acid deposition, which has two parts: wet and dry. Wet deposition refers to acidic rain, fog, and snow. As this acidic water flows over and through the ground, it affects a variety of plants and animals. The strength of the effects depends on many factors, including how acidic the water is, the chemistry and buffering capacity of the soils involved, and the types of fish, trees, and other living things that rely on the water. Dry deposition refers to acidic gases and particles. About half of the acidity in the atmosphere falls back to earth through dry deposition. The wind blows these acidic particles and gases onto buildings, cars, homes, and trees. Dry deposited gases and particles can also be washed from trees and other surfaces by rainstorms. When that happens, the runoff water adds those acids to the acid rain, making the combination more acidic than the falling rain alone. Prevailing winds blow the compounds that cause both wet and dry acid deposition across state and national borders, and sometimes over hundreds of miles. This new book combines an excellent background article with over 900 abstracts and book citations. Easy access is provided by title, author, and subject indexes.
Author : Kenneth Mellanby
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400927353
The Watt Committee on Energy became active in of the effects on buildings, for instance. Proposals the study of Acid Rain during 1982. Perhaps the for action should therefore concentrate on measures only aspect of the subject that has become more that promise a real improvement as a result of certain during the subsequent five years is that the expenditure. expression 'Acid Rain' is used loosely in public The Watt Committee's study of this subject has been in two phases. The first dealt with the nature debate for a complex of industrial and environ mental phenomena. Among these, Acid Rain in the of the problem, and culminated in the publication straightforward meaning of the words-rain and of Watt Committee Report No. 14 in 1984. That perhaps snow having a significantly high level of Report was divided into four sections, each of acidity-is of only limited importance. To represent which was prepared by a sub-group of the working this perspective, therefore, the Watt Committee Ex group: they dealt respectively with the fate of air borne pollution, vegetation and soils, fresh water ecutive decided that the study leading to the present Report should be entitled 'Air Pollution, Acid Rain and remedial strategy. In the second phase, these and the Environment'. sub-groups have brought their sections up-to-date The Watt Committee's interest in Acid Rain and a fifth sub-group was appointed to study arises from the fact that, among its causes, the buildings and non-living materials.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Acid pollution of rivers, lakes, etc
ISBN : UOM:39015022534062
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Acid rain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019597108
Author : Jack L. Durham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Acid rain
ISBN : UCSD:31822024228538
Author : John McCormick
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Acid deposition
ISBN : 1853833029
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.