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Environmental contamination : health risks and ecological restoration /

"Drawn from presentations made during the Croucher Advanced Study Institute workshop held in 2010, this volume covers all the fundamentals necessary for contaminated site assessment and remediation. It discusses historical and emerging contaminants, human health, risk assessment and bioremediat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Croucher Foundation
Otros Autores: Wong, Ming H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Drawn from presentations made during the Croucher Advanced Study Institute workshop held in 2010, this volume covers all the fundamentals necessary for contaminated site assessment and remediation. It discusses historical and emerging contaminants, human health, risk assessment and bioremediation. It contains numerous case studies, many of them from the Asia-Pacific region, that look at the effects of rapid industrialization. It also examines both historical and emerging contaminants such as persistent organic pollutants and electronic waste"--
Notas:"The chapters in this book are a collection of the lectures and discussion held during the Croucher Advanced Study Institute (ASI) workshop 2010, entitled Remediation of contaminated land bioavailability and health risk, held at the Hong Kong Baptist University, between December 9 and 13, 2010"--Preface.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xix, 483 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781439892398
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