Environmental Chemistry

Environmental Chemistry has been designed to provide fundamental knowledge of the principles related to environment and its chemistry. It is essentially the science of identifying and measuring the amount of chemicals species in the environment, Natural or Manmade. The subject matter includes the topics from various branches of knowledge such as physics, chemistry, biology, sociology and geography etc., but the emphasis has been laid on the subject matter from the point of view of chemistry. Environmental Chemistry would certainly be only of major importance today without the accurate, precise sensitive and sophisticated analytical methods, which call attention to the presence of detrimental substances and the absence of essential elements in our environment. Environmental chemistry is the scientific study of the chemical and biochemical phenomena that occur in natural places. Environmental chemistry can be defined as the study of the sources, reactions, transport, effects, and fates of chemical species in the air, soil, and water environments; and the effect of human activity on these. Environmental chemistry is an interdisciplinary science that includes atmospheric, aquatic and soil chemistry, as well as uses analytical chemistry. It is different from green chemistry, which tries to reduce potential pollution at its source. Apart from the students and research scholars of chemistry the book will be of interest to all those who are interested in the study of environment, pollution, environmental education and allied fields.