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Environmental systems science : theory and practical applications /
Looks at pollution and environmental quality from a systems perspective. Credible human and ecological risk estimation and prediction methods are described, including life cycle assessment, feasibility studies, pollution control decision tools, and approaches to determine adverse outcome pathways, f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA :
Elsevier,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Environmental Systems Science: Theory and Practical Applications
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Systems science
- Introduction
- The environmental scientific method
- The march of science
- The computational paradigm
- Public health and environmental governance
- Complexity
- Thermodynamics
- Emergence
- Quid quid recipitur
- Fuzziness
- Systems-based communications
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 2: Dynamical environmental systems
- Introduction
- Scale: A key to transitional environmental science
- Relationship between spatial and temporal scales
- Scale in thermodynamics and motion
- Environmental first principles
- Natural versus engineered system dynamics
- Ecosystem dynamics
- Human dynamics
- Environmental systems dynamics
- Cycling within and between environmental systems
- A systems view of oxygen
- Sensitivity
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 3: Transitional and translational sciences
- Introduction
- Transitioning from the past: Pollution episodes
- Meuse Valley, Belgium
- London, England
- Donora, Pennsylvania
- Lessons learned
- Recent air pollution emergencies involving hazardous substances
- Bhopal, India: The trigger for better industrial planning
- Nuclear accidents
- World Trade Center, New York: Intentional episode
- The rational approach: The key to translational science
- Translating science to address environmental risk
- Systems metrics
- Transport and fate
- Evolution toward systems science and computational approaches
- Modularity and interoperability
- Model uncertainties
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 4: Predicting risks in an increasingly complex world
- Introduction
- Systems-based risk assessment
- Microbes
- Complex mixtures
- Exposure probability
- Dosimetry and exposure calculations
- Biological models to support estimates of emerging risks
- Exposure estimation
- Secondary data
- Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances: Secondary data meta-analysis
- Conclusions
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 5: Environmental system dynamics
- Introduction
- Pollutant formation processes: Chemodynamics
- Synthesis or combination
- Decomposition
- Single replacement
- Double replacement (also metathesis or double displacement)
- Complete combustion
- Biogeochemodynamics
- Spheres and cycles
- Carbon equilibrium and cycling
- The carbon cycle and greenhouse effect
- Global warming potential
- Combustion and carbon
- Nutrient cycling
- The nitrogen cycle
- The sulfur cycle
- Interactions between sulfur and nitrogen
- Acid deposition
- Metal and metalloid cycles
- Metals and heat
- Mercury biogeochemistry
- Biogeochemistry of other heavy metals
- Metalloid cycling
- Decision-making supported by biogeochemical knowledge
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 6: Endogenous dynamics in humans
- Introduction
- Inhalation exposure route.