Environmental Indicators [Hardcover]

Environmental indicators are the first line of warning against hazards caused by humans or nature catastrophes to prevent diseases and death of living organisms. The present book covers a large variety of environmental indicators from physical-chemistry through economical, bioinformatics, electromagnetic irradiation and health aspects, all dealing with environmental pollution. This volume has been intended to environmentalists, engineers, scientists and policy makers as well to anybody interested in the latest development in the indicator field.PART I. Environmental Thermodynamics.- PART II. Climate Change.- PART III. Conservation.- PART IV. Environmental Degradation.- PART V. Environmatics.- PART VI. Intensive Farming.- PART VII. Land Degradation.- PART VIII. Soil.- PART IX. Land Use.- PART X. Environmental Pollution.- PART XI. Water Pollution.- PART XII. Water Biological Pollution.- PART XIII. Water Chemical Pollution.- PART XIV. Air Pollution.- PART XV. Environmental Health.

Prof. Robert Armon (born 2nd of March, 1952 in Bucarest, Romania) immigrated as a child with his parents to Israel in 1965. He under graduated in Biology and received his M.Sc. in environmental virology (at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel). He received his D.Sc. in 1985 from the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at Technion (Israel Institute of Technology). He performed Post-Doc research (1985-1988) at University of Rhode-Island, USA and at Institute Armand-Frappier, University of Qu?bec, Canada. Since 1994 he is a faculty member at Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty (Technion, Israel) teaching and studying environmental microbiology (main subject-bacteriophages as viral pollution indicators). He is a member in many microbiological and water societies such as ASM, ISM, IWA and ISEI, board member in several scientific journals and reviewer. He published over 89 scientific papers, 10 book chapters, has 7 patents and recently published the lC$