Environmental Geochemistry

Site Characterization, Data Analysis, Case Histories, and Associated Health Issues

Benedetto De Vivo, Harvey Belkin, Annamaria Lima, Benedetto De Vivo, Harvey Belkin, Annamaria Lima

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9780443138010
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443138027
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geology & Earth Sciences

Environmental Geochemistry: Site Characterization, Data Analysis, Case Histories, and Associated Health Issues provides a wealth of information on modern geochemical methods, techniques, and procedures for those studying toxic substances found in soil, air, and water. This new edition takes an especially close look at environmental pollution and its impact on human health. The first third of the book looks at a variety of methods and procedures, such as taking groundwater samples, biological monitoring, geochemical mapping, and models of geochemical speciation. This is followed by a close look at different pollutants, including lead and pesticides. The authors conclude with several detailed case histories examining health issues resulting from environmental pollution. Environmental researchers and practitioners will return to this book again and again in their work towards understanding and reducing the environmental pollutants that affect our health. - Provides an in-depth examinations of the latest geochemical techniques and procedures - Presents a detailed analysis of various applied studies in pollution and contamination - Includes new case histories that highlight environmental pollution and related health issues

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• About the editors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 : Field methods in regional geochemical surveys
• Chapter 2 : Sampling methods for site characterization
• Chapter 3 : Contaminated groundwater sampling and quality control of water analyses
• Chapter 4 : The collection of drainage samples for environmental analyses from active stream channels
• Chapter 5 : Biological monitoring for environmental health risk assessment
• Chapter 6 : Data conditioning of environmental geochemical data: Quality control procedures used in the British Geological Survey’s regional geochemical mapping project
• Chapter 7 : Gas chromatographic methods of chemical analysis of organics and their quality control
• Chapter 8 : Evaluation of geochemical background at regional and local scales by fractal filtering technique: case studies in selected Italian areas
• Chapter 9 : Geochemical mapping of urban areas
• Chapter 10 : Chemical speciation to assess bioavailability, bioaccessibility, and geochemical forms of potentially toxic metals (PTMs) in polluted soils
• Chapter 11 : Extraction and characterization of pore water from contaminated soils
• Chapter 12 : Models of geochemical speciation: Structure and applications
• Chapter 13 : Progressive advances in applications of lead and strontium isotopes as monitors of anthropogenic contaminants in the surficial environment
• Chapter 14 : Polyurethane foam-based passive air samplers in monitoring persistent organic pollutants: Theory and application
• Chapter 15 : Legacies of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in soil of China—A review, and cases in Southwest and Southeast China
• Chapter 16 : The Bagnoli-Napoli brownfield site in Italy: Before and after the first remediation phase
• Chapter 17 : Potential contaminants and sustainable HazMat infrastructure: Neodeterministic (NDSHA) approach guarantees prevention rather than cure. The Bhopal—Madhya Pradesh, India—Gas tragedy case
• Chapter 18 : Applications of geochemistry to medical geology
• Chapter 19 : Environmental human health issues related to indoor air pollution from domestic biomass use in rural China: A review
• Chapter 20 : Properties, utilization, and potential health and environmental issues of depleted uranium (DU) for military and civilian use
• Chapter 21 : Biological, chemical, and environmental threats of toxic desert dust to military personnel
• Chapter 22 : Indoor mercury pollution in the herbaria: Risk assessment for workers’ health and potential solutions. The studies at the Florence (Italy) herbaria
• Chapter 23 : Occurrence and risk assessment of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in multimedia environment from Zigui Karst Area, China
• Index
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