Environmental forensics /

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Imprint:Cambridge, UK : RSC Pub., ©2008.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 175 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:Issues in environmental science and technology, 1350-7583 ; v. 26
Issues in environmental science and technology ; 26.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11221397
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Other authors / contributors:Hester, R. E. (Ronald E.)
Harrison, Roy M., 1948-
Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)
ISBN:9781615833580
1615833587
9781847558343
1847558348
0854049576
9780854049578
9780854049578
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:Environmental forensics' is a combination of analytical and environmental chemistry, which is useful in the court room context. It therefore involves field analytical studies and both data interpretation and modelling connected with the attribution of pollution events to their causes. Recent decades have seen a burgeoning of legislation designed to protect the environment and, as the costs of environmental damage and clean-up are considerable, not only are there prosecutions by regulatory agencies, but the courts are also used as a means of adjudication of civil damage claims relating to envir.
Other form:Print version: Environmental forensics. Cambridge, UK : RSC Pub., ©2008 9780854049578