Title:
Environmental protection and risk assessment of organic contaminants
Publication Information:
Enfield, New Hampshire : Science Publishers, 2002
ISBN:
9781578081936
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Summary
Summary
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.
Table of Contents
Preface | p. v |
Acknowledgements | p. vii |
List of Contributors | p. xi |
Part I Environment and Human Health Risks | |
1. Organic Contaminants in Soil Environment--Environmental Fate, Impacts and Remediation | p. 3 |
2. PAHs in the Soil Environment and their Bioavailability | p. 27 |
3. Risk Assessment Methods and Approaches with Particular Reference to Organic Compounds at Gasworks Sites | p. 45 |
4. Terrestrial Ecotoxicity Tests Using Soil Fauna and Flora | p. 57 |
5. Environmental Concentration of Pesticides in Cotton Production Systems: Risk Assessment by Fugacity Modelling | p. 79 |
Part II Environmental Fate and Off-Site Migration | |
6. Extrapolation of Pesticide Sorption Data between Agroclimatic Regions | p. 97 |
7. Wetland Rice Ecosystem: A Favourable Environment for Pesticide Biodegradation | p. 125 |
8. Transport of Sediments and Pesticides in Surface Water | p. 147 |
9. Groundwater Vulnerability Assessment for Pesticides at the Plot, Field and Regional Scale | p. 173 |
Part III Management and Remediation | |
10. Problems and Issues Relating to Pesticide Residues in Food and the Environment--The Malaysian Experience | p. 193 |
11. Minimising Environmental Contamination by Selecting Appropriate Herbicide Dose | p. 209 |
12. Bioremediation of PAH-Contaminated Soil: Factors Limiting and Strategies for Improving the Degradation of Benzo[a]pyrene | p. 225 |
Index | p. 243 |