Environmental Health Risk: International Conference No. 3
Published on 1. September 2005
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-1-84564-026-2 (ISBN)
Description
The efforts of modern civilization to create an environment to meet human aspirations have successfully resulted in constant improvements of our lifestyle, but at the cost of increased risks to human health due to deterioration of the environment. This situation has motivated many scientists throughout the world to analyze the environmental factors that can affect our health and to calculate the levels of risk. Risks that are found to be unacceptably high require immediate action. However, it is not always straightforward to estimate all possible scenarios and further research is needed. This book comprises a series of papers presented at the Third International Conference on the Impact of Environmental Factors on Health, divided into the following topic areas: Water Quality Issues; Air Pollution; Radiation Fields; Accident and Man-Made Risks; Risk Analysis; Emergency Response; Food Contamination; Electromagnetic Fields; Noise Pollution; Housing and Health; Occupational Health; Chemical Risk Assessment; Remediation; Social and Economic Issues; Education; and Ecotoxicology Studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Southampton
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84564-026-2 (9781845640262)
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Content
Section 1: Risk analysis Risk assessment for pharmaceutical products in the environment; Attending to risk in sequential sampling plans; Brownfield redevelopment, integrating sustainability and risk management; Risk in anthropic environments: methodologies for risk evaluation and exposition reduction; Biomonitoring in environmental medicine - results of LARS; Measures of network vulnerability indicators for risk evaluation and exposure reduction; Methemoglobin and hemolytic anemia as potential markers for drug side-effects; Quantitative microbial risk assessment modelling for the use of reclaimed water in irrigated horticulture; Chemical and ecotoxicological analyses to assess the environmental risk of the Garigliano River (central Italy); The use of TPH analytical data to estimate human health risk: practical approaches; Advanced computer-multi-media technology and direct mental health delivery; Pollutant and noise impact on child morbidity; Some nanotechnology risks; Hazardous material transport accidents: analysis of the D.G.A.I.S. database; Radiological risks in the construction and operation of alpine tunnels Section 2: Air pollution Local and global impact considerations on the turbo gas combined cycle; Assessing vulnerability of low-income communities to indoor air pollution in South Africa: towards the development of a vulnerability index; Air pollution of PM10 with radionuclide Cs-137 in Kuwait City, Kuwait; Environmental health risk by sly pollution: applied research on radon inside public buildings; Dioxin emission estimates and reduction options for Central and Eastern Europe; Atmospheric pollution and human health: the significance of a datable sedimentary archive from a small urban lake in Merseyside, UK; Contamination by particulated material in blasts: analysis, application and adaptation of the existent calculation formulas and software; Population exposure to urban highway traffic emissions; Purification characteristics of golden pothos for emitting air-pollutants from plywood using a gas sensor; Ventilation improvement in fire smoke control Section 3: Food contamination Mercury in Amazonian fish from Madeira River basin, Rondonia State, Brazil; Human exposure of methyl mercury through fish consumption: a Lake Ontario case study Section 4: Occupational health Microbiological risk in operating rooms: new strategies for infections surveillance; Vibration evaluation from the effects of whole-body vibration; Occupational health impacts on the child waste-pickers of Dhaka City; Vibration exposure of workers: considerations on some technical and interpretative aspects of the EC standards recently issued; Measurement of hand-vibration transmissibility by non-contact measurement techniques; Air pollution control for occupational health improvement; Health and safety in the workplace: prevention of hazards to reproductive health Section 5: Water quality issues Validity of coliphages as indicators of viral pollution of water in the Aral Sea area, Uzbekistan; Solving simultaneous risk equations: waste water recycling and fresh water sustainability in an arid continent; The role of urban lake sediments as historical archives of industrial pollution and health linkages: an example from Daresbury pond, north Cheshire, UK; Residual radioactivity from the treatment of water for urban domestic applications Section 6: Electromagnetic fields UMTS network planning using genetic algorithms; Long-term and low-thermal biological effects of microwaves Section 7: Housing and health The built environment in poor urban communities on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon; Development of a comprehensive indoor environment indicator for green building labelling in Taiwan Section 8: Remediation Biodegradation of carbaryl and phthalate isomers by soil microorganisms; Environmental pollutants and human diseases: diagnosis and treatment; Engineering Pseudomonas putida to minimize clogging during biostimulation; Environment management and health risks of soil erosion gullies in Sao Luis (Brazil) and their potential remediation using palm-leaf geotextiles Section 9: Social and economic issues Accessibility and urban environment sustainability in Sydney (1991-2001); Impact assessment and public outreach strategies of local governments; Application of the ISHTAR Suite for the assessment of the health effects of Rome environmental policy