Global Approaches to Environmental Management on Military Training Ranges. Tracey Temple

      

      Global Approaches to Environmental Management on Military Training Ranges

      Edited by

      Tracey J Temple and Melissa K Ladyman

       Cranfield University, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8LA

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      ISBN 978-0-7503-1605-7 (ebook)

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      DOI 10.1088/978-0-7503-1605-7

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      Contents

       Acknowledgements

       Editor biographies

       Contributors

       Message from the editors

       Abbreviations

       Introduction: a global approach to environmental management on military training ranges

       1 Scientific principles of environmental management

       1.1 Introduction

       1.2 Contextualising military training environments

       1.3 Behaviour of explosives in the environment

       1.3.1 Nitramine explosives

       1.3.2 Nitroaromatic explosives

       1.3.3 Propellants

       1.3.4 3-Nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one

       1.4 Predicting environmental behaviour of explosives

       1.4.1 Laboratory experiments

       1.4.2 Computational modelling

       1.4.3 Transformation and reaction processes

       1.5 Conclusion

       References

       2 Characterization of soils on military training ranges

       2.1 Introduction

       2.2 Background

       2.3 Steps in the multi-increment sampling process

       2.3.1 Sample quality criteria

       2.3.2 Material properties

       2.3.3 Theory of sampling

       2.3.4 Data evaluation and inference

       2.4 Error and error reduction

       2.4.1 Magnitude of error

       2.4.2 Controlling for error

       2.4.3 Other sources of error

       2.4.4 Minimizing sampling error

       2.5 Sampling

       2.5.1 Objectives

       2.5.2 Sampling

       2.5.3 Sources of error (see section 2.4)

       2.5.4 Best practices

       2.6 Sampling on snow and ice—a special case

       2.7 Sample processing and analysis

       2.7.1 How to process multi-increment soil samples to determine energetics

       2.7.2