Environmental contamination [electronic resource] : health risks and ecological restoration / edited by Ming H. Wong.
2013
TD172.5 .E5585 2013
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Title
Environmental contamination [electronic resource] : health risks and ecological restoration / edited by Ming H. Wong.
ISBN
9781439892381
9781439892398 (electronic book)
9781439892398 (electronic book)
Publication Details
Boca Raton, Fla. : Taylor & Francis, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xix, 483 p. : ill.
Call Number
TD172.5 .E5585 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.73
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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From the Croucher Advanced Study Institute workshop 2010, entitled Remediation of contaminated land bioavailability and health risk, held at the Hong Kong Baptist University, between December 9 and 13, 2010.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Wong, Ming H.
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Croucher Foundation.
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Table of 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.
pt. 2. Emerging chemicals and electronic waste
pt. 3. Ecological restoration of contaminated sites : bioremediation
pt. 4. Ecological restoration of contaminated sites : phytoremediation.