Heavy Metal Contamination of Water and Soil
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Heavy Metal Contamination of Water and Soil

Analysis, Assessment, and Remediation Strategies

  1. 382 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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eBook - PDF

Heavy Metal Contamination of Water and Soil

Analysis, Assessment, and Remediation Strategies

About this book

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.Although adverse health effects of heavy metals have been known for a long time, exposure to heavy metals continues and is even increasing in some areas. Remediating heavy metal contaminated soils and water is necessary to reduce the associated health and ecological risks, make the land resource

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Publisher
Apple Academic Press
Year
2014
Topic
Biological Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781482239652
Subtopic
Environmental Science
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. ABOUT THE EDITOR
  3. CONTENTS
  4. ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND HOW TO CITE
  5. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. PART I: INTRODUCTION
  8. CHAPTER 1: HEAVY METALS IN CONTAMINATED SOILS: A REVIEW OF SOURCES, CHEMISTRY, RISKS, AND BEST AVAILABLE STRATEGIES FOR REMEDIATION
  9. PART II: HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION
  10. CHAPTER 2: LEACHING BEHAVIOR OF HEAVY METALS AND TRANSFORMATION OF THEIR SPECIATION IN POLLUTED SOIL RECEIVING SIMULATED ACID RAIN
  11. CHAPTER 3: SPATIALLY EXPLICIT ANALYSIS OF METAL TRANSFER TO BIOTA: INFLUENCE OF SOIL CONTAMINATION AND LANDSCAPE
  12. CHAPTER 4: HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION OF SOIL AND SEDIMENT IN ZAMBIA
  13. CHAPTER 5: HUMAN EXPOSURE PATHWAYS OF HEAVY METALS IN A LEAD-ZINC MINING AREA, JIANGSU PROVINCE, CHINA
  14. PART III: ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION
  15. CHAPTER 6: INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION IN SEDIMENTS FROM A COASTAL INDUSTRIAL BASIN, N. E. CHINA
  16. CHAPTER 7: A DETERMINATION OF METALLOTHIONEIN IN LARVAE OF FRESHWATER MIDGES (Chironomusriparius) USING BRDICKA REACTION
  17. CHAPTER 8: MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT OF HEAVY METAL POLLUTION SOURCES OF GROUNDWATER AROUND A LEAD AND ZINC PLANT
  18. CHAPTER 9: ASSESSMENT OF HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION OF AGRICULTURAL SOIL AROUND DHAKA EXPORT PROCESSING ZONE(DEPZ), BANGLADESH: IMPLICATION OF SEASONAL VARIATION AND INDICES
  19. PART IV: REMEDIATION OF HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION
  20. CHAPTER 10: PHYTOREMEDIATION OF HEAVY METALS: A GREEN TECHNOLOGY
  21. CHAPTER 11: ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFICACY OF CHELATE-ASSISTED PHYTOEXTRACTION OF LEAD BY COFFEEWEED (Sesbania exaltata Raf.)
  22. CHAPTER 12: SUSTAINABLE SOURCES OF BIOMASS FOR BIOREMEDIATION OF HEAVY METALS IN WASTE WATER DERIVED FROM COAL-FIRED POWER GENERATION
  23. CHAPTER 13: CHARACTERIZATION OF THE METABOLICALLY MODIFIED HEAVY METAL-RESISTANT Cupriavidusmetallidurans STRAIN MSR33 GENERATED FOR MERCURY BIOREMEDIATION
  24. A FERRITIN FROM DendrorhynchusZhejiangensis WITH HEAVY METALSDETOXIFICATION ACTIVITY
  25. AUTHOR NOTES
  26. Back Cover

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