eBook - ePub
Soil Pollution
From Monitoring to Remediation
- 358 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
About this book
Soil Pollution: From Monitoring to Remediation, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the causes of soil pollution, distribution, transport, and fate of pollutants and transformation of pollutants in soil and metabolite accumulation. Soil pollution has increased over the last decades and may pose a risk for human and ecological health. The book expands and updates on current knowledge with an increased focus on PFAs and micronanplastics. The new edition also includes a new chapter on the One Health initiative.In this book, researchers and students in soil science will find appropriate and comprehensive information on organic, inorganic, and nanoparticle pollutants in soil, methodologies for their monitoring, and data reporting processes in order to gain adequate insights of pollution problems caused by these pollutants.
- Provides concise and comprehensive coverage of soil pollution related issues, along with techniques for pollutants' monitoring, protection, and remediation
- Presents real examples to illustrate cases of soil pollution, and of techniques used for monitoring the pollutants
- Includes discussions on the ecotoxicological and human effects of soil pollution
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Table of contents
- Title of Book
- Chapter 1 Introduction to the main issues of soil pollution
- Chapter 2 Distribution, transport, and fate of pollutants
- Chapter 3 Changes in soil ecosystem structure and functions due to soil contamination
- Chapter 4 Pollutant transformation and metabolite accumulation in soils
- Chapter 5 Organic pollutants in soils
- Chapter 6 Inorganic pollutants in soils
- Chapter 7 Nanomaterials as soil pollutants
- Chapter 8 Micro(nano)plastics as soil pollutants
- Chapter 9 Ecotoxicological effects and risk assessment of pollutants
- Chapter 10 Human health risks and soil pollution
- Chapter 11 Strategies for agricultural soil protection and conservation
- Index
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Yes, you can access Soil Pollution by Teresa Rocha-Santos,Anabela Cachada,Armando C. Duarte in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Botany. We have over 1.5 million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.