Fundamentals of Environmental and Toxicological Chemistry ─ Sustainable Science

This book covers environmental chemistry, including toxicological chemistry. It discusses the integration of toxicological chemistry along with environmental chemistry, organized on the five spheres of Earth's environment. The book includes discussion of each of the spheres of the environment based upon (1) the nature of the sphere, (2) pollution of the sphere, and (3) sustainability of the sphere. Emphasizing sustainability, it focuses on the relation of environmental/toxicological chemistry to the practice of industrial hygiene.

Stanley E. Manahan is a professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he has been on the faculty since 1965. He earned his AB in chemistry from Emporia State University in Kansas in 1960 and his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Kansas in 1965. Since 1968, his primary research and professional activities have been in environmental chemistry, with recent emphasis on hazardous waste treatment. His latest research involves the gasification of wastes and sewage sludge and crop by-product biomass for energy production.

Dr. Manahan has taught courses on environmental chemistry, hazardous wastes, toxicological chemistry, and analytical chemistry and has lectured on these topics throughout the United States as an American Chemical Society Local Sections tour speaker and in a number of countries, including France, Italy, Austria, Japan, Mexico, and Venezuela. He has written books on environmental chemistry, green chemistry, water chemistry, energy, general chemistry, environmental geology, the Anthropocene, climate change, environmental science, hazardous wastes and industrial ecology, toxicological chemistry, applied chemistry, and quantitative chemical analysis. Dr. Manahan is the author or coauthor of approximately 90 research articles.