Environmental contamination : health risks and ecological restoration / edited by Ming H Wong

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: CRC Press, 2013. Boca Raton :Description: xix, 499pISBN:

9781439892381

Subject(s):

Pollution -- Congresses

DDC classification:

363.73 ENV

Contents:

pt. 1. Health impacts and risk assessment -- pt. 2. Emerging chemicals and electronic waste -- pt. 3. Ecological restoration of contaminated sites : bioremediation -- pt. 4. Ecological restoration of contaminated sites : phytoremediation.

Summary: "Drawn from presentations made during the Croucher Advanced Study Institute workshop held in 2010, this volume covers all the fundamentals necessary for contaminated site assessment and remediation. It discusses historical and emerging contaminants, human health, risk assessment and bioremediation. It contains numerous case studies, many of them from the Asia-Pacific region, that look at the effects of rapid industrialization. It also examines both historical and emerging contaminants such as persistent organic pollutants and electronic waste

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text/Reserve Book	Library, SPAB F-2	Non Fiction	363.73 ENV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		008477

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pt. 1. Health impacts and risk assessment --
pt. 2. Emerging chemicals and electronic waste --
pt. 3. Ecological restoration of contaminated sites : bioremediation --
pt. 4. Ecological restoration of contaminated sites : phytoremediation.

"Drawn from presentations made during the Croucher Advanced Study Institute workshop held in 2010, this volume covers all the fundamentals necessary for contaminated site assessment and remediation. It discusses historical and emerging contaminants, human health, risk assessment and bioremediation. It contains numerous case studies, many of them from the Asia-Pacific region, that look at the effects of rapid industrialization. It also examines both historical and emerging contaminants such as persistent organic pollutants and electronic waste

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