Environmental Protection and Risk Assessment of Organic Contaminents
Published on 1. January 2002
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-1-57808-193-6 (ISBN)
Description
This volume addresses the issue of environmental protection and risk assessment of organic contaminants in the soil environment. It is based on selected papers presented during the second International Conference on Contaminants in Soil Environment, held in December 1999 in Delhi, India.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Enfield
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Weight
625 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57808-193-6 (9781578081936)
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Content
Environmental and human health risks: organic contaminants in soil environment - environmental fate, impacts, and remediation; PAHs in the soil environment and their bioavailability; risk assessment methods and their approaches with particular reference to organic compounds at gasworks sites; terrestrial ecotoxicity tests using soil fauna and flora; environmental concentration of pesticides in cotton production systems - risk assessment by fugacity modelling. Environmental fate and off-site migration: extrapolation of pesticide sorption data between agroclimatic regions; wetland rice ecosystem - a favourable environment for pesticide biodegradation; transport of sediments and pesticides in surface water; groundwater vulnerability assessment for pesticides at the plot, field, and regional scale. Management and remediation: problems and issues relating to pesticide residues in food and the enviroment - the Malaysian experience; minimising environmental contamination by selecting appropriate herbicide dose; bioremediation of PAH-contaminated soil - factors limiting and strategies for improving the degradation of benzo(a)pyrene.