Publisher's Synopsis
This second edition has been carefully revised and updated to incorporate the developments which have evolved in the highly contentious debate about acid rain. The author provides a basic account of the acid rain story and covers the social and historical background to the effects of emissions on health and the evironment. The book follows the transfers/transformations of acid-generating pollutants from their source through to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. It provides a wide-ranging but integrated account of this issue which has been of environmental concern for several dcades and, now that control strategies have been enacted in Europe and North America, the author gives consideration to the time-scale for recovery of an acid-damaged ecosystem and the alternatives available. This account is factual and encourages readers to draw their own conclusions.
