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Perk Marcel van der Perk

SOIL Second Edition
Soil and Water Contamination, Second Edition gives a structured overview
of transport and fate processes of environmental contaminants. Dealing with
all topics essential for understanding and predicting contaminant patterns in
soil, groundwater and surface water, it contributes to the formation of a SOIL AND
solid basis for adequate soil and water pollution control and integrated AND WATER
catchment management. A unique feature of this work is that it does not
treat water and soil pollution as independent processes, but as components
of an integrated whole. The core of this geoscientific approach is divided CONTAMINATION
into four parts: W
• Introduction to the basics of soil and water contamination, such as
the fundamentals of environmental pollution and chemistry and the A
basic properties of soil, groundwater and surface water.
• Source, role, and behaviour of substances in soil and water, treating
natural and anthropogenic sources of nutrients, heavy metals,
radionuclides and organic pollutants as well as emerging substances
of concern, their physico-chemical characteristics, behaviour, and TER CONT
toxicity.
• Transport and fate of substances in soil and water, focusing on
processes of transport, exchange and transformations like advection,
dispersion, adsorption kinetics and biochemical decay. Special attention
is paid to the mathematical description and modelling of these processes.
• Patterns of substances in soil and water, explaining spatial and
temporal patterns of pollutants in soil, groundwater, and surface AMINA
water, illustrated by recent case studies from fundamental and
applied research.

This comprehensive, successful textbook, now in its second edition, has
been conscientiously updated and extended and includes many case studies,
examples and exercises sections, providing undergraduate and graduate TION
students in the Earth and Environmental Sciences with all the material
necessary for the study of soil and water contamination. In addition, it can
serve as a useful source of information for professionals.

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