Environmental contamination health risks and ecological restoration

• Corporate Author: Croucher Foundation
• Other Authors: Wong, Ming H.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, 2013.
• Subjects: Pollution > Congresses.; Restoration ecology > Congresses.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781439892398
• Physical Description: xix, 499 p. : ill.

"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 bioremediat...

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.