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