本书围绕环境科学与环境工程领域涉及的相关内容进行编写。全书包括4部分，第一部分主要介绍环境科学专业基本情况和全球环境问题；第二部分为全书的主干部分，内容涉及环境化学和环境生物相关的知识点；第三部分同为全书的主干部分，内容涉及水污染、土壤污染、大气污染概况及其治理技术，固体废弃物及处理处置方法，物理性污染及治理技术；第四部分内容涵盖环境监测和管理、环境影响评价、可持续发展、环境经济学，以及当前广受关注的“碳达峰”和“碳中和”等内容。
全书根据主题分为13章（Chapter），每章根据内容分为3个单元（Unit），其中Unit 1为编写人员根据专业知识和相关资料整理编写而成，Unit 2和Unit 3则是根据相关主题选取的阅读资料，共39个单元。同时，各章开篇设置了思政教育内容，并增加了课外拓展阅读资料，且对每章的Unit 1进行录音供学生参考等。此外，各章节均总结了重点词汇表和重难点句子，并做了详细注解，以及设置了相关习题作为课后练习和巩固。
本书可作为普通高等院校环境科学系、环境工程系和环境类相关专业的本科生教材，也可供环境科学及环境工程相关专业的硕士研究生进行拓展阅读、翻译及写作等使用，对环境类及生态类科研工作者及环境工程师等也有重要的参考价值。

Chapter 1 Introduction to Environmental Science
Unit 1 Introduction to Environmental Science
Unit 2 COVID-19 Face Masks: A Potential Source of Microplastíc Fibers in the Environment
Unit 3 Future Research Needs for Environmental Science in China
Chapter 2 Introduction to Global Environmental Issues
Unit 1 Global Environmental Issues
Unit 2 Melting Glaciers May Produce Thousands of Kilometers of New Salmon Habitat
Unit 3 Global Priorities of Environmental Issues to Combat Food Insecurity and Biodiversity Loss
Chapter 3 Environmental Chemistry
Unit 1 What does Environmental Chemistry Study?
Unit 2 The Transportation and Transformation of Some Pollutants
Unit 3 Environmental Role of Cylindrospermopsin
Chapter 4 Environmental Biology
Unit 1 Turning Agricultural Wastes into Energy
Unit 2 Global Efforts to Protect Biodiversity Fall Short
Unit 3 Biomass Growing as Viable Energy Source
Chapter 5 Water Pollution and Wastewater Treatment
Unit 1 Water Pollution
Unit 2 Wastewater Treatment Technologies
Unit 3 Occurrence of Benzophenone-type UV Filters in Aquatic Environments
Chapter 6 Soil Pollution and Remediation
Unit 1 Introduction to Soil Pollution
Unit 2 Soil Contamination in Various Countries
Unit 3 Macro- and Microplastics on Agricultural Fields
Chapter 7 Air Pollution and Control
Unit 1 Air Pollution and Control
Unit 2 Tree Leaves Fight Pollution
Unit 3 Particle Toxicity's Role in Air Pollution
Chapter 8 Solid Waste Disposal
Unit 1 Types of Solid Waste
Unit 2 Solid Waste Management and Disposal
Unit 3 Global Scenario of Solid Waste Managemet
Chapter 9 Physical Pollution and Control
Unit 1 Noise Pollution and Countermeasures
Unit 2 Radioactive Pollution and Control
Unit 3 Marine Noise Pollution
Chapter 10 Environmental Monitoring
Unit 1 Environmental Monitoring
Unit 2 Environmental DNA and Environmental RNA: Current and Prospective Applications for Biological Monitoring
Unit 3 An Integrated Solution of Software and Hardware for Environmental Monitoring
Chapter 11 Environmental Impact Assessment and Sustainability
Unit 1 Environmental Impact Assessment
Unit 2 Urban Ecological Transition: the Practice of Ecological Civilization
Unit 3 Construction in ChinaChallenges and Opportunities for Achieving Sustainable Development
Chapter 12 Environmental Eeonomics
Unit 1 Environmental Economics
Unit 2 Beyond Environmental and Ecological Economics:Proposal for An Economic Sociology of the Environment
Unit 3 Uncertainty in Environmental Economics:the Problem of Entropy and Model Choice
Chapter 13 Peak CO2 Emission and Carbon Neutrality
Unit 1 Carbon Neutrality
Unit 2 Techniques Used in Achieving Carbon Neutrality
Unit 3 How to Reduce CO2 Emissions in Pharmaceutical Industry of China