Environmental Toxicological Chemistry for Industrial Hygiene and Environmental Health Science, provides a brief overview of environmental chemistry and toxicological chemistry needed by students and practitioners of industrial hygiene and environmental health science. Environmental chemistry, is the study of the sources, reactions, transport, effects, and fates of chemical species in the hydrosphere, the atmosphere, the geosphere, and the biosphere and the effects of human activities thereon. Toxicological chemistry relates the chemical nature of substances to their toxic effects on organisms and is closely linked with environmental chemistry. The book addresses environmental and toxicological chemistry within the context of the five spheres of the environment: (1) The geosphere, (2) the hydrosphere, (3) the atmosphere, (4) the biosphere, and (5) the anthrosphere, that part of the environment made and operated by humans. It is extremely important to consider the anthrosphere as part of the environment because human activities are modifying the Earth system to such an extent that we are entering into a new epoch, the anthropocene, in which human influences are dominant. The most notable of these is climate change that is being driven by emissions of greenhouse gases from the anthrosphere into the atmosphere.
After a brief overview of environmental chemistry and the environment, the book addresses the environmental and toxicological chemistry of each of the five major segments of the environment in five separate sections. Specific topics covered in the book are the following: (1) Introduction: What is Environmental Chemistry?, (2) The Environment and Evolution of the Environmental Movement, (3) Environmental Chemistry of the Hydrosphere, (4) Environmental Chemistry of the Atmosphere, (5) Environmental Chemistry of the Geosphere, (6) Environmental Biochemistry of the Biosphere and Toxicological Chemistry, (7) The Anthrosphere and Environmental Chemistry, (8) Sustainability: Industrial Ecology and Green Chemistry, (9) Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health, and (10) Summary: Environmental Chemistry and Sustaining Our Home
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