Heavy Metals in the Environment

Using Wetlands for Their Removal

Howard T. Odum

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040209646
• Subtopic: Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
• Index: Biological Sciences

Much of the convenience of modern life resides in sheet metal, the cowling shield of most machines and appliances. However, the load that this takes off human shoulders has to be carried elsewhere, and the Earth has borne the burden. Many of us woke up to the environmental cost when over a century of industrialization finally surpassed the capacity

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• Part I Introduction and Background
• Part II Lead in a Cypress-Gum Swamp, Jackson County, Florida
• Part III Lead and Wetlands in Poland
• Part IV Value and Policy
• Appendices
• Appendix A1 Symbols Used in Systems Diagrams
• Appendix A4 Biogeochemical Cycle of Lead and the Energy Hierarchy
• Appendix A5A Field Measurement Methods
• Appendix A5B Data on Biota in Sapp Swamp
• Appendix A6A Methods Used for Chemical Analysis of Waters and Sediments
• Appendix A6B Chemical Data on the Cypress-Gum Swamps of Steele City Bay, Jackson County, Florida
• Appendix A7 Details and Statistics on Microcosm Studies
• Appendix A8 Equations, Programs, and Calibration Table for Simulation Models
• Appendix A9 Data on the Biala River Wetland and the Results of the Field Experiments
• Appendix A11A Details on Economic Valuation Methods
• Appendix A11b Transformities Used in Calculations
• Appendix A12 Emergy Evaluation of Poland
• AppendixA13 References to Laws Cited in Chapter 13
• References
• Index