الوصف: Arsenic contamination in drinking water and crops is a major health issue in many countries worldwide, threatening the health of millions of people due to arsenic's toxicity and carcinogenicity. This edited volume brings together a diverse group of environmental science, sustainability and health researchers to address the challenges posed by arsenic contamination. The book sheds light on this global environmental issue and proposes solutions to aquatic contamination through multi-disciplinary sustainable approaches and case studies from different parts of the world. The chapters contained here present the status quo in different parts of the world and provide essential information on arsenic exposure risks for humans as well as possible measures for tackling arsenic poisoning. The mechanisms of arsenic uptake, translocation and distribution in plants and grains are also explained. In closing, the book reviews a variety of prospective sustainable solutions to the problem of arsenic accumulation in soil and water. The book is comprised of three sections. The first section describes the routes of exposure to environmental arsenic and its transport in soil and aquatic ecosystems. The second section explains the health risks linked to arsenic exposure in food and the environment. The third section addresses sustainable arsenic contamination mitigation strategies using the potential applications of recent biological technology such as biotechnology, bioremediation, phytoremediation, biochar, absorbent, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology approaches. The book is intended for a broad audience including researchers, scientists, and readers with diverse backgrounds.

المؤلفون: Nitish Kumar, Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi, Shuhong Wang

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Pollution, Environmental chemistry, Environmental health

تصنيفات: SCIENCE / Environmental Science, MEDICAL / Public Health, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Pollution Control, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Environmental

الوصف: This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health. The author is a medical scientist, with training in the law. The book documents current understanding about pesticides in food, the plastics revolution, toxic metals, air, water and electronic waste pollutants, chemical exposure in the workplace, radiation pollutants, chemical exposure and hearing loss, how our bodies deal with chemicals, genetic variability and the risk of disease, the effect of chemicals on genes, mitochondria and the immune system and what we can do about it all. Industrialisation has resulted in many thousands of chemicals, which are being continuously developed and often escaping from where they are used into our human environment, without us really knowing enough about them. In high dosages or with continuous small dosage, the evidence suggests, that many of them couldinterfere with human health and some of them are known to be doing so. But for the vast majority, we are left wondering whether some could be responsible for some diseases the causes of which are inadequately understood. Every chapter is thoroughly reinforced with several pages of references from the peer-reviewed literature.

المؤلفون: Alfred Poulos

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Environmental chemistry

تصنيفات: SCIENCE / Environmental Science, MEDICAL / Public Health, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Industrial & Technical, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Pollution Control, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Waste Management, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Health & Safety

الوصف: This book presents recent reviews on the occurrence, analysis, toxicity and remediation of pesticides in biological systems such as fish, chickens, water, soil and food.

المؤلفون: Inamuddin, Mohd Imran Ahamed, Eric Lichtfouse

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Environmental chemistry, Environmental health, Pollution, Environmental monitoring, Toxicology, Green chemistry

تصنيفات: SCIENCE / Chemistry / Environmental, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Toxicology, MEDICAL / Research, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biochemistry, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Organic, SCIENCE / Environmental Science, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Pollution Control

الوصف: Dieses Buch soll dazu beitragen, dass Rauchmelder durch Auswahl und Montage zuverlässig Schäden und Rauchopfer, sowie Falschmeldungen vermeiden. Außerdem schafft es Klarheit darüber, wer für was verantwortlich ist.

المؤلفون: Adam Merschbacher

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Fire prevention, Buildings—Protection, Environmental health, Refuse and refuse disposal, Environmental chemistry

تصنيفات: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Fire Science, MEDICAL / Public Health, SCIENCE / Environmental Science, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Waste Management, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Environmental

الوصف: This book reviews advanced techniques for the determination of pesticide residues, with focus on extraction, detectors and cleaning protocols. Chapters also discuss pesticide occurrence, toxicity and remediation.

المؤلفون: Inamuddin, Mohd Imran Ahamed, Eric Lichtfouse

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Environmental chemistry, Environmental monitoring, Environmental health, Pollution, Green chemistry, Toxicology

تصنيفات: SCIENCE / Chemistry / Environmental, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Toxicology, MEDICAL / Research, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biochemistry, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Organic, SCIENCE / Environmental Science, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Pollution Control

الوصف: Soil is a vital support system for all life forms, and is directly or indirectly exposed to various pollutants and harmful chemicals. Any pollutant entering the soil system not only affects the quality of the soil, but also the plants and crops growing in it. Further, soil pollution has far-reaching impacts, since harmful chemicals can become biomagnified and enter the food chain, causing severe health concerns. Degraded soils can adversely affect various plant systems by creating biotic and abiotic stress, which increases the chances of biochemical and physiological disorders. Chronic diseases and lower yield have been reported as consequences of soil pollution. Drawing on decades of soil-related research, this book focuses on soil pollution, types of soil pollutants, and their impacts on plant physiological and biochemical systems, along with crop productivity. The book begins with a brief introduction to soil pollution and continues with a discussion of the different types and their effects, together with remediation methods. It highlights various sources of soil pollution such as herbicides, acidification, chemical fertilizers, sewage sludge, heavy metals, and radioactive pollutants. It also covers plant responses to combinations of pollutants, effects of pollutants on plant ultrastructure, interactions between pollutants and plant diseases, and interactions between pollutants and agricultural practices. In closing, it addresses the challenges involved in the restoration of degraded land, side effects of agricultural practices in the form of greenhouse gases, and strategies for mitigating these effects. Plant Responses to Soil Pollution offers an essential guide for students, environmental consultants, researchers and other professionals involved in soil and plant-related research.

المؤلفون: Pratibha Singh, Sunita Kumari Singh, Sheo Mohan Prasad

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Plants--Effect of pollution on, Botany, Soil pollution, Plant-soil relationships, Environmental chemistry, Biotic communities, Agriculture, Environmental health

تصنيفات: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, MEDICAL / Public Health, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SCIENCE / Environmental Science, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Environmental

الوصف: The book provides current knowledge and research on the presence and effects of anticancer drug residues in the aqueous environment and covers all relevant aspects of the presence of these residues in wastewaters and natural aquatic systems, where numerous analogies between their pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in humans and their effects in the environment can be drawn. This book comprises of 18 chapters and represents the combined work of leading scientists from different research institutions from across the globe. We present the state of the art in the field of anticancer drug residues in the aquatic environment while being cognizant of the many challenges that remain.

المؤلفون: Ester Heath, Marina Isidori, Tina Kosjek, Metka Filipič

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Pharmaceutical chemistry, Environmental chemistry, Antineoplastic agents--Environmental aspects

تصنيفات: SCIENCE / Chemistry / Environmental, MEDICAL / Public Health, SCIENCE / Environmental Science

الوصف: This open access book reports on a pilot project aiming at collecting information on the socio-ecological risks that could arise in the event of an uncontrolled spread of genetically engineered organisms into the environment. The researchers will, for instance, be taking a closer look at genetically engineered oilseed rape, genetically engineered olive flies as well as plants and animals with so-called gene drives. The book mainly adresses researchers.

المؤلفون: Arnim von Gleich, Winfried Schröder

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Environmental chemistry, Environmental health, Environmental management

تصنيفات: SCIENCE / Chemistry / Environmental, MEDICAL / Public Health, SCIENCE / Environmental Science, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General

الوصف: This book reviews recent research advances in sustainable agriculture, with focus on crop production, biodiversity and biofuels in Africa and Asia.

المؤلفون: Eric Lichtfouse

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Agriculture, Environmental health, Nanochemistry, Pharmacology, Environmental chemistry, Pollution

تصنيفات: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, MEDICAL / Pharmacology, MEDICAL / Public Health, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Physical & Theoretical, SCIENCE / Environmental Science, SCIENCE / Nanoscience, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Pollution Control, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Environmental

الوصف: This volume provides a unique collection of contributions addressing both the ‘too much'and ‘too little'sides of the nitrogen story. Building on analyses started at the 6th International Nitrogen Conference, Kampala, the book explores the idea of ‘just enough nitrogen': sufficient for sustainable food production, but not so much as to lead to unsustainable pollution and climate problems. The range of nitrogen threats examined, solutions evaluated and science-policy analyses presented here has provided the foundation to agree the ‘Kampala Statement-for-Action on Nitrogen in Africa and Globally,'as reported in this volume. Humanity today faces unprecedented challenges: How to feed a growing population? How to reduce air pollution, water pollution and climate change? How to handle regional differences in an era of increasing globalization? These questions are at the heart of this edited volume which examines the multi-dimensional nature of the global nitrogen challenge.While humans have massively altered the nitrogen cycle, the consequences have become polarized. Some regions have too much nitrogen, associated with pollution and wasteful use of a valuable resource, while other regions have too little nitrogen, leading to constraints on food production and depletion of soil nutrient stocks. The volume provides a unique collection of contributions addressing both the ‘too much'and ‘too little'sides of the nitrogen story. Building on analyses started at the 6th International Nitrogen Conference, Kampala, the book explores the idea of ‘just enough nitrogen': sufficient for sustainable food production, but not so much as to lead to unsustainable pollution and climate problems. The range of nitrogen threats examined, solutions evaluated and science-policy analyses presented here has provided the foundation to agree the ‘Kampala Statement-for-Action on Nitrogen in Africa and Globally,'as reported in this volume. Together, the contributions in this book are now informing actions by the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI) in working with the United Nations Environment Programme and others to establish the International Nitrogen Management System (INMS). A key outcome has been to catalyse development of the first Resolution on Sustainable Nitrogen Management, as adopted by the fourth UN Environment Assembly (UNEA/EA.4/Res.14).The work is written for researchers and policy makers and all those interested in seeing how sustainable nitrogen management can contribute to meeting many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

المؤلفون: Mark A. Sutton, Kate E. Mason, Albert Bleeker, W. Kevin Hicks, Cargele Masso, N. Raghuram, Stefan Reis, Mateete Bekunda

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Environmental health, Pollution, Environmental chemistry, Environment

تصنيفات: MEDICAL / Public Health, SCIENCE / Environmental Science, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Pollution Control, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Environmental