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Hazardous substances and human health : exposure impact and external cost assessment at the European scale /
There is widespread public concern about hazardous chemicals that are contained in air, soil, water and food. Policy has therefore adopted a series of laws and regulations concerning emissions into and concentration levels in different media including food. As policy makers do not only have to consi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; London :
Elsevier,
2006.
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| Colección: | Trace metals in the environment ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction. 2. Assessment of human health impacts and the approach followed. 3. Multimedia environmental fate and/or exposure assessment of prioritised contaminants. 4. Multimedia environmental fate assessment framework: outline, atmospheric modelling and spatial differentiation. 5. Modelling the environmental fate in the terrestrial environment. 6. Modelling the environmental fate in the aquatic environment. 7. Expose and impact assessment. 8. Valuation. 9. Evaluation of results. 10. Case studies on emissions from signle facilities. 11. Whole economy case study. 12. Concluding remarks. Appendix A.A model formulation. Appendix B. Substance-independent data. Appendix C. Substance-dependent data. Appendix D. Symbols, indices and compartment acronyms used for parameter and process description.