Environmental protection and risk assessment of organic contaminants

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Enfield, New Hampshire : Science Publishers, 2002

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9781578081936

Subject Term:

Organic compounds -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses

Soil pollution -- Congresses

Pollution -- Risk assessment -- Congresses

Added Author:

Kookana, Rai S.

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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.

R.S. Kookana and R. Sadler and D. Connell and N. Sethunathan and M. Megharaj and A. Juhasz and P.K. Seth and R. NaiduR. Sadler and D. ConnellG.R. Shaw and R. SadlerK. O'Halloran and L.H. BoothS. Baskaran and F. Sanchez-Bayo and I.R. Kennedy and M.R. MortimerRiaz Ahmad and Rai S. KookanaK. Raghu and N. Sethunathan and Neera Singh and M. Megharaj and Rai S. Kookana and Ravi NaiduR.D. Connolly and D.M. Silburn and D.M. FreebairnR.B. Salama and Daniel Pollock and R.S. KookanaU.B. CheahA. Rahman and T.K. JamesAlbert L. Juhasz

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

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