Partition and Adsorption of Organic Contaminants in Environmental Systems

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Summary: An excellent book!
Review: Dr. Chiou is to be commended, and thanked, for putting together such a timely and exciting volume. This is a landmark volume for the contaminant fate and transport field, and will be widely used and referenced in years to come. As one that has published in this area, I found the volume to be very thorough and complete, and a pleasure to read. It is truly exciting to have all this information concentrated in one volume, and explained in such great detail. It is the one volume that will be required reading for all of my students working in this area.

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Summary: William Ball (Johns Hopkins University)
Review: This excellent monograph represents a carefully documented and well-written summary of decades of research regarding the interaction of synthetic organic chemicals with naturally occuring soil and sediment materials. Researchers and practitioners will appreciate finding Dr. Chiou's very many seminal contributions to this subject nicely organized and summarized in a single volume, while students who are new to the subject will enjoy a well written and succinct introduction to many of the more important principles that govern the environmental fate and transport of organic pollutants in natural aquatic environments.
This work should be required reading for any engineering consultant or environmental regulator responsible for understanding, controlling, or remediating environmental occurrences of man-made organic chemical contaminants (e.g., chlorinated solvents, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, pesticides, herbicides, etc.). I will certainly be recommending it to students in my own graduate courses related to physical/chemical processes in the environment.