Affiliation:
1. Duke University , Pratt School of Engineering, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Durham, North Carolina, USA , 27708
Abstract
This chapter introduces the role of physics in characterizing environmental quality and assessing risks to human populations and ecosystems. Physics underpins all scientific endeavors and must be properly applied to understand, control, and prevent pollution, and to protect the environment. Physical principles are the basis for how substances are released into the air, water and other environmental media, their transformation, transport, and fate in the environment, as well as the technologies needed to measure, model, and remediate the problems these substances my cause. Characterizing environmental conditions builds from the first principles of physics and sets the stage of actions to address pollution.
Publisher
AIP Publishing LLCMelville, New York
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