Environmental Monitoring (Third Edition)

Author: Xi Danli, Sun Yusheng, Liu Xiuying (Co-edited)
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Publish Date: 2004-07-17
Features: This book is the third edition of "Environmental Monitoring." The revision preserves the basic framework of the first and second editions while making significant adjustments, modifications, and additions based on disciplinary development and teaching needs. The main additions include: ecological monitoring; emergency monitoring for sudden pollution incidents; accreditation and metrological certification review of environmental monitoring laboratories; vibration measurements; updates to all analytical methods and standards; major revisions to biological monitoring, domestic waste monitoring, continuous automatic monitoring and simplified monitoring methods, indoor air monitoring, and experiments. The book is divided into ten chapters: Introduction; Water and Wastewater Monitoring; Air and Waste Gas Monitoring; Solid Waste Monitoring; Soil Pollution Monitoring; Biological Pollution Monitoring; Noise Monitoring; Environmental Radioactivity Monitoring; Quality Assurance in Monitoring Processes and Continuous Automatic Monitoring Technology and Simplified Monitoring Methods. It also includes seventeen experiments with the textbook content. To further meet teaching needs, the authors have developed an electronic teaching plan with this textbook. The electronic teaching plan presents the key points, difficulties, and background information of each chapter in multimedia form, along with video recordings of river monitoring and goldfish toxicity experiments, among others. This book is primarily intended as a teaching text for environmental engineering and environmental science majors in higher education institutions, and can also be referenced by relevant professionals and environmental protection technicians.