Emerging Contaminants in the Terrestrial-Aquatic-Atmosphere Continuum
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Emerging Contaminants in the Terrestrial-Aquatic-Atmosphere Continuum

Occurrence, Health Risks and Mitigation

  1. 434 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Emerging Contaminants in the Terrestrial-Aquatic-Atmosphere Continuum

Occurrence, Health Risks and Mitigation

About this book

Emerging Contaminants in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments: Occurrence, Health Risks, and Mitigation provides the latest information on the synthesis of the occurrence, behavior, human health risks and mitigation of emerging contaminants in developing countries. First highlighting sources, industrial applications, key drivers and regulatory frameworks, the book then goes on to discuss the nature of emerging contaminants, including organic (e.g., pharmaceuticals), inorganic (e.g., rare earth elements) and biological agents (e.g., antimicrobial resistance). It then presents the dissemination, environmental behavior, and fate in terrestrial and aquatic systems as well as the human and ecological exposure pathways, health risks, and more. Offering a transdisciplinary approach that brings together perspectives and contributions from experts in environmental sciences, hydrology, environmental engineering, ecotoxicology, chemistry, material sciences, and legal and policy aspects, the book provides an approachable and flexible resource for researchers and upper-level students with diverse academic backgrounds. - Adopts a lifecycle perspective by including industrial applications, behavior and fate and human health risks and removal - Focuses on developing regions and covers a wide range of emerging contaminants, including those often overlooked in earlier books such as rare earth elements and antimicrobial resistance - Presents a clear understanding of the contrasts between developed and developing countries with respect to emerging contaminants and their health risks and mitigation, including water and wastewater treatment systems commonly used in developing countries - Covers human and ecological health risks in developing countries

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contributors
  7. Editor biography
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. List of Illustrations
  11. List of Tables
  12. Chapter 1 : Emerging contaminants: A handful of conceptual and organizing frameworks
  13. Chapter 2 : Emerging contaminants in the terrestrial-aquatic-atmosphere continuum: A global perspective
  14. Chapter 3 : High-technology rare earth elements in the soil-plant system: Occurrence, behaviour, and fate
  15. Chapter 4 : (Micro)plastics in the soil system: Occurrence, behaviour, fate, and future directions
  16. Chapter 5 : Occurrence and behaviour of emerging organic contaminants in aquatic systems
  17. Chapter 6 : Anthropogenic rare earth elements in aquatic environments: Occurrence, behaviour, and fate
  18. Chapter 7 : (Micro)plastics in aquatic systems: Current research focal areas, under-studied matrices, and future directions
  19. Chapter 8 : Antibiotic-resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes in aquatic systems: Occurrence, behaviour, and fate
  20. Chapter 9 : Air-borne emerging contaminants: An under-studied reservoir and a potential health risk?
  21. Chapter 10 : Occurrence, behaviour and fate of airborne microplastics
  22. Chapter 11 : Ecological health risks of high-technology rare earth elements
  23. Chapter 12 : Ecological health risks of antibiotic resistance: A perspective on the evidence, challenges, and research needs
  24. Chapter 13 : Ecological health risks of emerging organic contaminants
  25. Chapter 14 : Occurrence and ecological health risks of microplastics
  26. Chapter 15 : Rare earth elements: Human exposure, risk factors, and health risks
  27. Chapter 16 : Occurrence, human exposure pathways, and health risks of (micro)plastics
  28. Chapter 17 : The environmental resistome: Human exposure, health risks, and research needs
  29. Chapter 18 : Health risk assessment and mitigation of emerging contaminants: A call for an integrated approach
  30. Chapter 19 : Emerging contaminants: Approaches for policy and regulatory responses in low-income countries
  31. Chapter 20 : Remediation technologies for contaminated soil systems
  32. Chapter 21 : Bio- and chemical surfactants for remediation of emerging organic contaminants
  33. Chapter 22 : Ten (10) key research questions on emerging contaminants and novel entities, and their health risks
  34. Chapter 23 : Epilogue: Summary, the next-frontier emerging contaminants/novel entities, and a look ahead
  35. Index
  36. A