UID:
almahu_9949697703002882
Format:
1 online resource (513 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-71649-6
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0-12-397317-1
Content:
Unraveling Environmental Disasters provides scientific explanations of the most threatening current and future environmental disasters, including an analysis of ways that the disaster could have been prevented and how the risk of similar disasters can be minimized in the future. Treats disasters as complex systems.Provides predictions based upon sound science, such as what the buildup of certain radiant gases in the troposphere will do, or what will happen if current transoceanic crude oil transport continues.Considers the impact of human systems
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Unraveling Environmental Disasters; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Our Focus; Reference; Chapter 1: Failure; Events; Disasters as Failures; Reliability; Failure Classification; Types of Failure; Failure Type 1: Miscalculations; Failure Type 2: Extraordinary Natural Circumstances; Failure Type 3: Critical Path; Failure Type 4: Negligence; Failure Type 5: Inaccurate Prediction of Contingencies; Types of Disasters; Sources of Disaster; Disasters from a Societal Perspective; Systems Engineering; Seveso Plant Disaster; References and Notes; Chapter 2: Science; Scientific Advancement
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Laws of MotionFluid Properties; Laws of Chemistry and Thermodynamics; Science in the Public Eye; References; Chapter 3: Explosions; Dust; The Science of Dust Explosions; Combustible Material; Form; Oxygen; Ignition Source; Particle Concentration; Containment; Dust Explosion Lessons; Ammonium Nitrate; Picric Acid and TNT; Methyl Isocyanate; Natural Explosions-Volcanoes; References; Chapter 4: Plumes; Nomenclature; Early Air Quality Disasters; Donora; Poza Rica; London, England; New York City; Toxic Plumes; Bhopal; Seveso; Plume Characterization; Nuclear Fallout Plumes; Chernobyl
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Fukushima PlumeRadiation Dose; References and Notes; Chapter 5: Leaks; Surreptitious Disasters; Pollutant Transport in Groundwater; Solubility; Liquid in Liquid Solubility; Suspension and Sorption; Love Canal; Chester; Times Beach; Valley of the Drums; Stringfellow Acid Pits; Tar Creek; The March Continues; References and Notes; Chapter 6: Spills; Disastrous Releases; Oil Spills; Deepwater Horizon; The Exxon Valdez; Torrey Canyon Tanker Spill; Santa Barbara Oil Spill; Prestige Oil Spill9; Niger River Delta Oil Spills; Other Spills; Indirect Harm; Partitioning in the Environment
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References and NotesChapter 7: Fires; Fire Disaster Thermodynamics; Water; Foams; Carbon Dioxide; BCF (Halon 1211); Dry Powders; Kuwait Oil Fires; Release of Radioactive Material; Indonesian Wildfires; World Trade Center Fire; The Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami; Other Major Fires; Tire Fires; Coal Mine Fires; Indirect Effect: Formation of Toxic Substances; Indirect Impact: Transport; References and Notes; Chapter 8: Climate; Global Climate Change; Greenhouse Gases; Radiative Forcing; Consequences of Global Warming; Is It a Disaster?; Responding to Climate Change
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Difficulties with Climate Change MitigationCarbon and Climate; Carbon Biogeochemistry; Potential Warming Disaster; Geoengineering; Biological Drivers of Climate Change; References and Notes; Chapter 9: Nature; Hurricanes; Hurricane Katrina; Hurricane Andrew; Floods; Drought; Ecosystem Resilience; References and Notes; Chapter 10: Minerals; Inorganic Substances; Toxic Metals; Mercury; Cadmium; Lead; Lead Mining Disasters; Mechanism of Toxicity in Humans; Arsenic: The Toxic Metalloid; Asbestos; Asbestos Disasters; Naturally Occurring Asbestos; Libby, Montana; Cyanide; Surface Mining; Value
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References and Notes
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-397026-1
Language:
English
