Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering, Volume I and II

(Ben Green) #1

INDEX 1377


Deuterium 318
Developed Nations 1008
Developing Nations 1003
Development and Evolution 263
DHHS—see Department of Health and
Human Services (US)
Diatomaceous earth 977
Diatoms 390
Dibenzofuran 38
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane 272,
849
Diesel exhaust 707, 767
Dietary supplements 272
Diffusion 26, 906
Digital devices 548
Dilution and dispersion 632
Dimethyl sulfide 128
Dioxin 39, 847
Directing agent 1149
Dirty ballast 683
Disaster care 182
Disease prevention 175
Disease Registers 376
Disease transmission 355
Disinfectants 229
Disinfection 224
‘Disorder pumpout’ 263
Disposal by dilution 729
Dissolved air flotation 1201
Dissolved oxygen 347, 538
Distillation processes 199, 937, 1320
Diurnal variation 64, 119
Diversity patterns 263
DMS—see Dimethyl sulfide
DNA—see Deoxyribonucleic acid
D. O.—see Dissolved oxygen
Double bottom vessel 675
Downwelling 796
Drag coefficient 18
Drawdown curves 444
Drinking Water Standards 341
Dry bulk carrier 670
Dry deposition 3
Dual media high rate filtration 1191
Dual phase extraction 457
Dust 166
Dustfall 321
Dyes 237, 251

ECLSS—see Environmental Control and
Life Support system
E. coli 358
Ecological magnification 966
Ecological pyramids 253
Ecology 244, 253, 260, 502, 694, 996,
1041, 1146
Ecosystem 260, 609
Effluent 60, 394, 732

Effluent standards 349
Electric vehicle 707
Electrodeionization 1245
Electrodialysis 198, 398, 980, 1322
Electrostatic precipitator 93, 282, 634, 836
Electrostatic precipitation 289
Electrooxidation 1246
Elevated source 1169
‘Eleven blue men’ 271
El Nino event 796
Emission control devices 704
Emission Measurement Technical
Information Center 1097
Emissions standards 404
Employment and Safety 299
EMTIC—see Emission Measurement
Technical Information Center
Emulsifying agents 272
Endangered Species Act (US) 364, 370
Endogenous respiration 141
Energy 244, 253, 687
Energy budget 254
Energy conversion 314
Energy demand 296
Energy flow 263, 615
Energy resources 307
Energy sources 199, 295
Energy strategies 320
Energy subsidies 263
Energy utilization 295
Environmental assessment 325
Environmental biology 334
Environmental contaminants 958
Environmental Control and Life Support
system 1210
Environmental factors 244, 300
Environmental hazards 175
Environmental health 335
Environmental impact 190, 325, 1019
Environmental justice 163
Environmental law 361
Environmental litigation 598
Environmental planning 992
Environmental Protection Agency
(US) 29, 72, 361, 594, 663
Environmental standards 325
Environmental stresses 1028
Environmental tobacco smoke 44, 276
Enzyme bioreactor 1250
Enzymes 138, 187
EPA—see Environmental Protection
Agency (US)
Epidemiology 368
Equilibrium 5
Equity 602
Equivalent sound level 773
Erosion 1066
Estuarine hydraulics 718

Estuaries 716
Ethylene oxide 239
ETS—see Environmental tobacco smoke
Eubacteriales 685
Eukaryotes 689
Eutrophication 115, 389, 614
Evaporation 439, 467, 635, 1288
Evapotranspiration 467
Exchange capacity 244
Excreta 349
Excretion 1158
Exhaust systems 490
Expected deaths 382
Explosion 668, 1022
Explosives 105
Exposure 459, 627
Extended aeration 151, 1083
Extinction time 225
Extract ventilation 521
Extreme value distribution 1126
Exxon Valdez 668, 804

Fabric filter 291, 840
Facultative lagoon 1201
FAO—see Food and Agricultural
Organization (UN)
FDA—see Food and Drug
Administration (US)
Fecal-disposal diseases 1004
Federal Coal Leasing Amendments
(US) 366
Federal Driving Cycle 701
Federal Emergency Management
Administration (US) 182
Federal Housing Administration (US) 320
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and
Rodenticide Act (US) 362, 963
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act (US) 366
Federal short cycle 701
Federal Water Pollution Control
Act (US) 526
Federal Water Pollution Control Act
Amendments (US) 526, 992
Federal Water Quality Act (US) 714
FEMA—see Federal Emergency
Management Administration (US)
Ferric chloride 972
Ferrous sulfate 975
Fertility rates 394
Fibrosis 176
Ficks Law 910
Field validated methods 1097
FIFRA—see Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (US)
Filterable solids 729
Filter fly—see Psychoda fly
Filter medium 147

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