LibGuides: Sustainable Cities Project: Pollution

Directive

Congested urban areas lead to more pollution. Identify how pollution occurs in an urban area and explain how your city will prevent or decrease the amount of pollution. Remember to be specific and address multiple types of pollution.

Pollution: Defintion

Physical impurity or contamination; (now) esp. the presence in or introduction into the environment (esp. as a result of human activity) of harmful or poisonous substances, or excessive levels of light, noise, organic waste, etc

Resources

Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability Vol. 5 by William Smith (Editor); Robin Kundis Craig (Editor); John Copeland Nagle (Editor); Bruce Pardy (Editor); Oswald Schmitz (Editor)
Call Number: via Gale Virtual Reference
ISBN: 9781933782164
Publication Date: 2012-02-27
eBook
Pollution A to Z by Richard M. Stapleton (Editor)
Call Number: via Gale Virtual Reference
ISBN: 9780028657004
Publication Date: 1905-06-01
eBook

Sustainable Cities Project: Pollution

Directive

Pollution: Defintion

Physical impurity or contamination; (now) esp. the presence in or introduction into the environment (esp. as a result of human activity) of harmful or poisonous substances, or excessive levels of light, noise, organic waste, etc

Resources

Types of Pollution