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Sediment Watch : Monitoring, Ecological Risk Assessment and Environmental Management /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated,
2018.
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| Colección: | Environmental research advances series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1; Managing Sustainable Coastal Environments by Sediment Watch: A Review; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 3. Monitoring of Pollutants in Sediments; 4. Problems and Challenges; 5. Management of Contaminated Sediments; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 2; Ecological Risk Assessments of Heavy Metals in Polluted Drainage Sediments from the Malacca Industrial Area and the Malacca River, Malaysia; Abstract; Introduction; 2. Materials and Methods; 2.1. Sampling; 2.2. Sample Digestion and Metal Analysis; 2.3. Data Treatment.
- 2.3.1. Geoaccumulation Index (Igeo)2.3.2. Enrichment Factor (EF); 2.3.3. Ecological Risk Assessments; 3. Results and Discussion; 3.1. Total Concentrations of Heavy Metals; 3.1.1. Sediment Quality Guidelines (SQGs); 3.1.2. Ecological Risk Assessments; 3.2. Geochemical Fractionations of Heavy Metal Distributions; 3.2.1. Metal Distribution; 3.2.2. Ratio of Non-Resistant to Resistant Fractions; 3.2.3. Risk Assessment Code (RAC); 4. Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter 3.
- Effects of Tsunamis on Sedimentary Characteristics and Contamination Levels: A Review of the 2004 and 2011 Giant EarthquakesAbstract; 1. Introduction; 2. 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami (2004 IOT); 3. 2011 Tohoku-oki Tsunami (2011 TOT); 4. Contamination Studies; 4.1. 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami; 4.2. 2011 Tohoku-oki Tsunami; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter 4; Environmental Management and Monitoring of Sediments in the Persian Gulf; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Heavy Metals in the Persian Gulf Sediments.
- 3. Strategies for Monitoring and Assessment of Coastal and Marine Sediments of the Persian Gulf4. Persian Gulf Metal Pollution Management; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5; Ecological Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Surface Mangrove Sediments Collected from the Sepang River Estuary, Peninsular Malaysia; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Materials and Methods; 2.1. Sampling; 2.2. Sample Treatment; 2.3. Metal Determination; 2.4. Quality Assurance; 2.5. Statistical Analysis; 2.5.1. Data Treatment; Geo-Accumulation Index; Enrichment Factor.
- Ecological Risk Assessment by Risk Index of Individual Metal (ER) and Potential Ecological Risk Index (PERI)3. Results and Discussion; 3.1. Heavy Metals in Sediments; 3.2. Geochemical Speciation Analysis of Sediments; 3.3. Geochemical Indexes; 3.4. Ecological Risk Assessments; 4. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Conflict of Interest; References; Chapter 6; Low Enrichment of Heavy Metals in Surface (Core-Top) Sediments of Offshore Sabah Coastal Waters: A Relief or Need for Stricter Regulation?; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Materials and Methods; 2.1. Sampling.