Abstract
Human society actually faces many environmental challenges such as environmental pollution, climate changes and loss of biodiversity. These issues induce major risks for ecosystems and are a serious threat for further life on Earth. Anthropogenic pressure may continue to exacerbate the present-day problems. Prevention and mitigation of environmental issues demands sound science and dedicated political support. For that, environmental chemistry is a central and multidisciplinary science that will provide new concepts and applied methods to solve actual environmental issues. Here, we outline the scope of environmental chemistry. The Anthropocene era and major chemical disasters are discussed. We present also the challenges of atmospheric chemistry, analytical chemistry, statistics and chemometrics, and education in environmental chemistry.
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This workshop was held on January 10–12, 2002, in Rome, Italy, and was sponsored and organized by the Committee on Education in Environmental Chemistry (CEEC) of the Federation of the European Chemical Societies (FECS) Division of Chemistry and the Environment (DCE).
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We are grateful to Astrid Kaltenbach (Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany); Clare M. Kristofco and Sally Beckham (University of California, San Diego, USA); and Maria Graziano and Barbara Chisholm (University of California, Irvine, USA) for granting the photographs of Paul. J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland, respectively. We are also grateful to the anonymous reviewer (atmospheric chemist) for providing useful suggestions, which helped to greatly improve the quality of the manuscript.
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Ali, H., Khan, E. Environmental chemistry in the twenty-first century. Environ Chem Lett 15, 329–346 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10311-016-0601-3
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