Synopses & Reviews
Air pollution affects us all in a number of crucial ways, causing lasting damage to our health and our environment. Whereas primary pollution can result from local activities, the extent of the impact can be felt at spatial scales from the individual up to the whole planet, and temporal scales from minutes to decades. Consequently, pollution of our atmosphere remains a critical concern, warranting continued scientific investigation and the development of effective local and global solutions. 'The World Atlas of Atmospheric Pollution' clearly and engagingly summarises current understanding of the state of air pollution on city to global scales.
Using high-quality graphical illustrations, the Atlas begins with a historical perspective before addressing topics such as urban and global air pollution, long-range transmission of pollution, ozone depletion and the impacts of air pollution, as well as future trends. Each chapter provides an introduction to the topic and graphical representations of the spatial and temporal distributions of air pollutants. Wherever possible, the chapters give a world-wide view of the state of our atmosphere. The illustrations are supported by explanations and other background material, allowing the reader to gain an informed insight into emission sources, the resulting atmospheric concentrations of key pollutants and their associated impacts.
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'A beautifully produced volume which explores diverse aspects of air pollution in the early 21st century in an engaging and visually arresting way.' --Jimi Irwin, 'Institution of Environmental Sciences' E-bulletin
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'A beautifully produced volume which explores diverse aspects of air pollution in the early 21st century in an engaging and visually arresting way.' —Jimi Irwin, ‘Institution of Environmental Sciences’ E-bulletin
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‘[A] solid primer for readers who want to become more familiar with how air pollution is formed, transformed, and transported as well as gain an understanding of how air pollution effects the environment and public health.’ —Melissa C. Lott, ‘Scientific American’, Plugged In blog
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Provides a revealing global overview of air pollution and its startling impact through graphical and visual representation of data.
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An engaging, important text calling for the reform of economics and pushing for the discipline to become an honest and effective tool for democracy.
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The articles in this book have been selected for their importance to the reform movement and for their accessibility to the general reader. Intelligibility is one of the movement's two keystones. "Real economic problems" concern real people, so their analysis must be made intelligible to an educated general public if real democracy is to function. The second keystone of the post-autistic movement is pluralism. All analysis proceeds on the basis of concepts that admit only a partial view of the economy, thereby predetermining the set of possible conclusions. This requires economists to begin to develop an ethos of honesty regarding the limitations of their chosen approaches. In engaging and thought-provoking prose, the 66 chapters of this book bring these and other conflicts out into the open and place them in the context of the major issues of the 21st century.
Synopsis
Air pollution affects us all in a number of crucial ways, causing lasting damage to our health and our environment. While primary pollution can result from local activities, the extent of the impact can be felt at spatial scales from the individual up to the whole planet and temporal scales from minutes to decades. Consequently, pollution of our atmosphere remains a critical concern, warranting continued scientific investigation and the development of effective local and global solutions. 'The World Atlas of Atmospheric Pollution' clearly and engagingly summarises current understanding of the state of air pollution on city to global scales.
About the Author
‘This book is an effort to bring economics back to reality. Given the influence that economists often have on public policy, this is an important task.’
Dean Baker, Co-Director, Centre for Economic and Policy Research, Washington
‘This book should be required reading for students taking economic classes and for heterodox economists who want to create a better economics.’
David F. Ruccio, Professor of Economics & Policy Studies, University of Notre Dame
‘Promises to reshape contemporary economic discourse to the benefit of students, professors, activists, and citizens of the world.’
Frederic S. Lee, University of Missouri-Kansas City, author of ‘Post Keynesian Price Theory’ and editor of the 'Heterodox Economics Newsletter'
Recommended. Heterodox economics collections supporting all levels of undergraduate and graduate students.' R.B Emmett
Table of Contents
Contributors include: Frank Ackerman, Ana Maria Bianchi, Jorge Buzaglo, Bruce J. Caldwell, Ha-Joon Chang, Robert Costanza, Herman E. Daly, James G. Devine, Peter Dorman, Edward Fullbrook, James K. Galbraith, Daniel Gay, Yves Gingras, Bernard Guerrien, Shaun Hargreaves Heap, Robert Heilbroner, Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Goutam U. Jois, Steve Keen, Reiner Kummel, Dietmar Lindenberger, Robert Locke, Anne Mayhew, Matthew McCartney, Deirdre McCloskey, Julie A. Nelson, Gilles Raveaud, Jacques Sapir, Mehrdad Vahabi, Richard Wolff and more.