ENV 3A08
Pollution Toxicology and Chemistry

Air pollution and toxicology reading

Specific references - with high priority readings denoted * particularly where I have not felt enough could be covered during lectures. Other reprints, which are hard to find, denoted + and are on short term loan or reference only in the library... In the case of books there may also be borrowable copies where the library holds more than one

Peter Brimblecombe

PRE-COURSE READING

Andrews, JE et al, An Introduction to Environmental Chemistry, Blackwell Science, 1996.

AIR POLLUTION HISTORY

  1. BRIMBLECOMBE, P. & BOWLER, C. The history of air pollution in York, England. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 42, 1562 (1992)- is best but difficult to find
  2. BOWLER, C. & BRIMBLECOMBE, P. The difficulties of abating smoke in late victorian york. Atmospheric Environment - Part B - not quite as good in terms of its general vision as the reference above.
  3. THE BIG SMOKE PBrimblecombe Methuen (1987/8). In library
  4. P. BRIMBLECOMBE Origins of smoke inspection in Britain (circa 1900) Applied Environmental Science & Public Health 1, 55-62 (2003). Not held, but I placed some in restricted loan
  5. *BRIMBLECOMBE, P The Clean Air Act after Fifty Years, Weather 61, 311 - 314 (2006). Available on-line in library and as hardcopy.

AIR POLLUTION SOURCES, CONCENTRATIONS and FUTURE

  1. *+PBrimblecombe Air Composition and Chemistry (Chaps. 6.1-4) CUP. In library
  2. *Bower, J.S. et al (1994) A winter NO2 smog episode in the UK, Atmospheric Environment, 28, 461-475.

LEGISLATION

  1. BOWLER, C. & BRIMBLECOMBE, P. Battersea Power Station and environmental issues 1929-1989, Atmospheric Environment, , 25B, 1991) pp. 143-51.
  2. +Derek Elsom, Atmospheric Pollution Chap. 7: Air Pollution Control Strategies
  3. UK National Air Quality Strategy.

LITERATURE AND PERCEPTION

  1. +Brimblecombe, P. Writing on smoke, in Bradby, H. Dirty Words, Earthscan London, 1990.
  2. +THE BIG SMOKE PBrimblecombe Methuen (1987/8).

HEALTH

  1. Air pollution and health Jon Ayres, Robert Maynard, Roy Richards, London : Imperial College Press, (2006).
  2. *RLMAYNARD Particulate air pollution, In P. BRIMBLECOMBE AND R. L. MAYNARD, The Urban Atmosphere and its Effects, Imperial College Press 163-193 (2001).
  3. +Russell, A.G., Brunekreef, B. A focus on particulate matter and health Environmental Science and Technology 43 (13), pp. 4620-4625 (2009 ).

INDOOR

  1. GBLeslie and FWLunau, Indoor Air Pollution (CUP 1992)
  2. +P. BRIMBLECOMBE AND M. CASHMORE, Indoor pollution, Journal de Physique, 6, 209-221 (2004).

DAMAGE

  1. +* C. GROSSI AND P. BRIMBLECOMBE, The effect of atmospheric pollution on building materials, Journal de Physique, 4, 197-210 (2002).

Tim Jickells


Brian Reid


Introduction to Ecotoxicology by Connell et al. s a straight forward text on the subject. It is in the library. Buy it if you fancy it but not an essential purchase.