Includes index.

Contents:

Part 1: Technology and Society
1. Pollution and Environmental Problems
2. The Current Situation of the Natural Environment
3. Resources and Energy
4. Environmental Problems and Chemistry or Chemical Engineering
5. Life Cycle Assessment 6. Risk Assessment of Chemical Substances
7. Chemistry and Environment 8. Energy Resource by Chemistry and Technology
9. Green Chemistry
10. Processing and Recycling by Chemical Engineering
11. Sustainable Society

Part 2: Nature and Substances
12. Composition of Global Environment
13. Foundations of Energy Science
14. Fossil Fuel
15. Nuclear Power Generation
16. Nuclear Energy and Environment
17. Renewable Energy
18. Basics of Earth Science
19. Air Pollution
20. Acid Rain
21. Global Warming and Greenhouse Gases
22. Fundamentals of Ecology
23. Water
24. Biosphere and Biodiversity
25. Chemical Substances and Wastes

Summary:

"This book presents the current aspects of environmental issues in view of chemical processes particularly with respect to two facets: social sciences along with chemistry and natural sciences. The former facet explores the environmental economics and policies along with chemical engineering or green chemistry."