Chemistry is covered at just the right depth for students to develop a thorough understanding of natural processes.

Chemical processes shape the world we live in; the air we breathe, the water we drink, the weather we experience. Guiding us through the chemical composition of the three key environmental systems; the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and terrestrial environment; the authors explain the chemical processes which occur within and between each system, allowing for better understanding of how they behave. We then see how human activity continues to affect the chemical behaviour of these environmental systems, and what the consequences of these natural processes being disturbed can be.

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Gary W. vanLoon is Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Queen's University, Canada. Stephen J. Duffy is Head of the Department of Chemistry at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.

"I am very impressed with the book and the approach it takes. By linking a wide range of core chemistry to aspects of the environment, it helps students learn about the environment in a rigorous scientific way, but also puts the chemistry into the context of an applied subject." --Dr George Marston, University of Reading, UK

"The authors have set themselves the goal of providing an advanced textbook on environmental chemistry for senior chemistry undergraduates. In meeting their goal they have produced wonderfully varied, informative and rigorous text that will provide an excellent resource for school, college and university teachers of environmental chemistry." --Education in Chemistry, May 2001

Review from previous edition: "Excellent textbook" --Aslib

"this new edition improves on what was already an excellent textbook for its market." --Education in Chemistry, 2007

"Taken as a whole this book provides an informative and intelligent undergraduate primer on environmental chemistry" --Chemistry in Britain