I would like to inform you about the publication of a new book. Tsuzuki, Y. (2014) Pollutant Discharge and Water Quality in Urbanisation, Series...

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I would like to inform you about the publication of a new book. Tsuzuki, Y. (2014) Pollutant Discharge and Water Quality in Urbanisation, Series: SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology, 92 p. ISBN & Price: 978-3-319-04756-0, 41.64 € (eBook); 978-3-319-04755-3, 49,99 € (Softcover) http://www.springer.com/environment/pollution+and+remediation/book/978-3-319-04755-3 The book is based on the lecture note of a lecture on water quality and urbanisation, which I have conducted in Japan for the training course of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in 2008-2012. Readers can obtain basic knowledge and concepts of pollutant discharge and water quality, their relationships between economic development, hard and soft measures to improve ambient water quality, and low-cost sanitation. "Contents of this book are (1) water quality in the rivers and coastal areas, (2) pollutant load and water quality, (3) soft measures in households, (4) relationship between economic development and pollutant discharge per capita (PDC), (5) municipal wastewater pollutant discharge control, and (6) water and sanitation in developing countries." (From Acknowledgements) "Anticipated readers are from university undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of environment engineering, environment economics, development economics, environment policy and related fields, and professionals and specialists in these fields." (From Acknowledgements) I will also post this information in the Library. Yoshi

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  1. This book is a commercial base. I hope this book would be used for a textbook for some classes or courses of the university or training course for young water environment and monitoring professionals. Yoshi