Toxic and Hazardous Materials - Bibliographies and Indexes in Science and Technology by James K Webster & Carol Webster Hardcover

About the Book

Libraries with large environmental collections will want this unique introduction to a multidisciplinary and popular topic. It includes more than 1,600 sources of information: reference books, periodicals, reports, proceedings, databases, libraries, associations, research centers, and audiovisual materials. Choice

Book Synopsis

Libraries with large environmental collections will want this unique introduction to a multidisciplinary and popular topic. It includes more than 1,600 sources of information: reference books, periodicals, reports, proceedings, databases, libraries, associations, research centers, and audiovisual materials. Choice

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"Libraries with large environmental collections will want this unique introduction to a multidisciplinary and popular topic. It includes more than 1,600 sources of information: reference books, periodicals, reports, proceedings, databases, libraries, associations, research centers, and audiovisual materials. There are seperately authored chapters on the effects of hazardous and toxic materials on the air, land, water, and health; on acid rain; on the transportation and disposal of radioactive and nonradioactive materials; on testing and analysis; on spills; and on laws and regulations.... There is a title index and listing of the addresses of cited publishers and vendors.... [This] book would be useful in the reference collections of large academic libraries."-Choice

?A unique sourcebook, with more than 1,600 sources of information, including reference books, periodicals, reports, proceedings, databases, libraries, associations, research centers, and audiovisual materials, and separately authored chapters on the effects of hazardous and toxic materials on the air, land, water, and health; on acid rain; on the transportation and disposal of radioactive and nonradioactive materials; on testing and analysis; on spills; and on laws and regulations. Except for major references, only materials published between 1980 and 1985 have been included and individual periodical articles are not cited. There is a title index and listing of the addresses of cited publishers and vendors, but no author or subject index.?-Environmental Bibliography

?Libraries with large environmental collections will want this unique introduction to a multidisciplinary and popular topic. It includes more than 1,600 sources of information: reference books, periodicals, reports, proceedings, databases, libraries, associations, research centers, and audiovisual materials. There are seperately authored chapters on the effects of hazardous and toxic materials on the air, land, water, and health; on acid rain; on the transportation and disposal of radioactive and nonradioactive materials; on testing and analysis; on spills; and on laws and regulations.... There is a title index and listing of the addresses of cited publishers and vendors.... [This] book would be useful in the reference collections of large academic libraries.?-Choice

"A unique sourcebook, with more than 1,600 sources of information, including reference books, periodicals, reports, proceedings, databases, libraries, associations, research centers, and audiovisual materials, and separately authored chapters on the effects of hazardous and toxic materials on the air, land, water, and health; on acid rain; on the transportation and disposal of radioactive and nonradioactive materials; on testing and analysis; on spills; and on laws and regulations. Except for major references, only materials published between 1980 and 1985 have been included and individual periodical articles are not cited. There is a title index and listing of the addresses of cited publishers and vendors, but no author or subject index."-Environmental Bibliography

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