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Pollution and its Management

Category: A-Level Geography

"Pollution is an enormous topic which bridges many subject boundaries. Pollution is the outcome of both natural and human processes and their interaction ... Interest in pollution issues has grown in direct proportion to our understanding of their impact on the natural environment and human health." (Chapter 1)

Topics covered include:

Chapter 1: Definitions; classification of pollutants; frequency.

Chapter 2: Primary gases; Sulphur dioxide and acid rain; carbon dioxide, the greenhouse effect and global warming;  chloroflurocarbons or ozone depletion; secondary gases; photochemical smog; Los Angeles; suspended particulates and toxic metals.

Chapter 3: Water pollution; River Rhine; strategies to reduce the effects of pollution;

Chapter 4: Solid waste disposal; the problem and its management; waste disposal in London.

Chapter 5: Nuclear resource development; Chernobyl, causes and consequences.

The Author

Arthur Byrne, MSc, BSSc (Hons), PGCE, PGC in Marketing, is Head of Geography at St Louis Grammar, Ballymena. He graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 1975 and completed his Postgrad in Education at Warwick University. He taught for two years at Cardinal Wiseman Comprehensive in Coventry, before his appointment to St Louis Grammar. He was appointed Head of Geography in 1982, and has wide experience in teaching and assessing geography at A Level.

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