TAILIEUCHUNG - Understanding Environmental Pollution: A Primer, Second Edition

Our estimation framework can be thought of as a modified version of the traditional EKC framework familiar to economists. The modifications are twofold. First, we do not use emissions per capita as our dependent variable, but use total emissions and include population size as a further explanatory variable. The traditional EKC framework implicitly assumes a population elasticity of one (., population is only a scale factor), which is of course only one possibility and may conflict with reality. Instead, our aim is to estimate this elasticity. Equation (4) therefore represents the more general estimation framework compared to the traditional EKC methodology. Second, contrary to some EKC studies we do not. | Cambridge Cambridge University Press 0521820243 - Understanding Environmental Pollution A Primer Second Edition Marquita K. Hill Frontmatter More information Understanding Environmental Pollution A Primer Understanding Environmental Pollution systematically introduces pollution issues to students and others with little scientific background. The first edition received excellent reviews and the new edition has been completely refined and updated. The book moves from the definition of pollution and how pollutants behave to air- and water-pollution basics pollution and global change solid waste and pollution in the home. It also discusses persistent and bioaccumulative chemicals and pesticides and places greater emphasis on global pollutants. The relationship between energy generation its use and pollution is stressed as well as the importance of going beyond pollution control to pollution prevention. Impacts on human and environmental health are emphasized throughout. Students are often invited to come to their own conclusions after having been presented with a variety of opinions. This textbook provides the basic concepts of pollution toxicology and risk assessment for non-science majors as well as environmental-science students. Marquita Hill developed a number of environmental courses at the University of Maine including Issues in Environmental Pollution an interdisciplinary introductory course and Pollution Prevention and Industrial Ecology in the Department of Chemical Engineering. She was for 7 years a visiting scholar in Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and was a founding member and the first president of the Green Campus Consortium of Maine an organization devoted to finding sustainable means of management for the state s institutions of higher learning. Cambridge University Press Cambridge Cambridge University Press 0521820243 - Understanding Environmental Pollution A Primer Second Edition Marquita K. Hill .

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