Manual for Environmental Forensics

by Stephen M. Mudge

The Manual for Environmental Forensics is a complete course in a single book. Aimed at both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as more experienced practitioners, it sets out the approach and techniques that constitute best practice in environmental forensics investigations. The book starts with pre-sampling investigations before showing the reader what to sample, where to sample from and how to treat and interpret the results. Example cases are used to provide justification for the best approaches and references facilitate further reading. The book avoids focusing on a single aspect of the subject and provides a broad overview on what to consider from the outset (aerial photographs and maps for example). It describes how to design cost-effective sampling programmes by taking variability and spatial considerations into account and shows how data can be presented in environmental forensics cases.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 2012