Environmental Forensics: Principles & Applications - Rilegato

Morrison, Robert D.

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ISBN 10: 0849320585 ISBN 13: 9780849320583

Casa editrice: CRC Press, 1999

Riassunto

Offering state-of-the-art techniques for both attorneys and environmental scientists, Environmental Forensics: Principles and Applications discusses non-chemical methods such as corrosion modeling, inventory reconciliation, and aerial photography interpretation. The book also covers chemical fingerprinting used to identify the origin and age of a contaminant release- relevant techniques include the use of radioactive isotope analysis, degradation modeling based on half-lives, and fuel additives such as MTBE. Environmental Forensics provides case study examples of environmental trial exhibits. It covers misused techniques that can bias the scientific validity of a trial exhibit, such as scale exaggeration, use of statistical manipulation, data contouring, and selective presentation. Detailed information is provided for identifying and interpreting those portions of environmental reports that are "target rich" sources of scientific biases. These include the identification of false positive, false negative and the intentional manipulation of environmental data that occurs primarily in the sample collection process.

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Robert D. Morrison

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Presenting techniques valuable to both attorneys and environmental scientists, Environmental Forensics: Principles and Applications contains the most comprehensive information on environmental forensic techniques available in one publication. It describes the strengths and weaknesses of each forensic technique to assist the readers in discriminating between legitimate and "junk" science and demonstrates how to scientifically challenge an inappropriately selected method. It provides case studies of environmental trial exhibits, pinpointing misused techniques that often bias the scientific validity of trial exhibits.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: CRC Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0849320585
• ISBN 13: 9780849320583
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania