Environmental Chemistry

Curriculum based on Environmental Chemistry by Colin Baird and Michael Cann (5th ed., 2012)

Part I: Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Pollution

Chapter 1: Stratospheric Chemistry: The Ozone Layer

Chapter 2: The Ozone Holes

Chapter 3: The Chemistry of Ground-Level Air Pollution

Chapter 4: The Environmental and Health Consequences of Polluted Air – Outdoors and Indoors

Part II: The Greenhouse Effect, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels and CO2

Chapter 5: The Greenhouse Effect

Chapter 6: Energy Use, Fossil Fuels, CO2 Emissions, and Global Climate Change

Chapter 7: Biofuels and Other Alternative Fuels

Chapter 8: Renewable Energy Technologies: Hydroelectric, Wind, Solar, Geothermal, and Marine Energy and Their Storage

Chapter 9: Radioactivity, Radon, and Nuclear Energy

Part III: Water Chemistry and Water Pollution

Chapter 10: The Chemistry of Natural Waters

Chapter 11: The Pollution and Purification of Water

Part IV: Toxic Organic Compounds

Chapter 12: Toxic Heavy Metals

Chapter 13: Pesticides

Chapter 14: Dioxins, Furans, and PCBs

Chapter 15: Other Toxic Organic Compounds of Environmental Concern

Part V: Environment and the Solid State

Chapter 16: Wastes, Soils and Sediments

Part VI: Advanced Atmospheric Chemistry

Chapter 17: The Detailed Free-Radical Chemistry of the Atmosphere

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