| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
02055nam a2200145Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
0-19-565555-9 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
363.7 |
| Item number |
ABB/H |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Abbasi S.A; |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Hot topics: Everyday environmental concerns |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher |
Oxford University Press |
| Place of publication |
New Delhi |
| Year of publication |
1999 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
208p. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Greenhouse |
| -- |
Disaster management |
| -- |
Water treatment |
| -- |
Greenhouse effect : Earth's radiation balance, global warming and greenhouse effect, climatic models and their forecasts, likely impact of a warmed earth, policies neded |
| -- |
Acid rain : History, origin, chemistry of acid rain, distribution of acid rain, impact of acid rain, acid rain - international perspectives, control measures, how big threat is acid rain |
| -- |
Ozone hole : Different atmospheric layers, significance of ozone layer, ozone hole, factors accelerating ozone depletion, ozone depletion theories, environmental effects depletion, global ozone depletion trends, why is hole predominantly at the Antarctic, ozone depletion control strategies, substitutes of CFCs, monitoring the ozone layer |
| -- |
Hazardous wastes and their management : Definition, charchterization, treatment and disposal, health hazards, hazardous waste generation, hazardous waste characterization, hazardous waste management, site selection, design and construction, radio active wastes, treatment of radioactive wastes |
| -- |
Hazardous wastes and their management : Transportation of hazardous wastes and storage |
| -- |
Disaster management : Forecasting and risk assessment, case histories of major chemical, disaster with special reference to their impact on environment, basic components of a hazard control system, techniques of risk assessment, emergency control and disaster planning, typical sequence of studies normally conducted for risk assessment of an industry |
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Disaster management case studies : prevention and control of accidents, MAXCRED- package, nature of likely accidents, hazard quantification |
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Water treatment : Cholerine as disinfectant, other disinfectants |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Krishnakumari P;Khan F.I |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
