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This book explores environmental physical agents and their potential effect on public and occupational health. It considers the theory, current research, and applications of physical agents including noise, ionizing radiation protection and non ionizing radiation protection, and explores the monitoring, measurement, modeling and mitigation of each of these.
Features:
Covers all three physical agents in one comprehensive book
Presents the latest results from research, as well as theory
Contributed to by a panel of international experts
Inhaltsverzeichnis
SECTION 1 Noise and Vibrations
Gaetano Licitra
1 Noise and Vibrations in the Environment
Jose Louis Cueto, Guillaume Dutilleux, Luca Fredianelli, Lenzuni Paolo, Gaetano Licitra, Tønnes Ognedal and Diego Palazzuoli
2 Industrial and Transport Infrastructure Noise
Luca Fredianelli, Gaetano Licitra, Guillaume Dutilleux and Jose Louis Cueto
3 Exposure to Noise at the Workplace
Lenzuni Paolo and Tønnes Ognedal
4 Exposure to Vibration at the Workplace
Lenzuni Paolo and Tønnes Ognedal
SECTION 2 Electromagnetic Fields
Giovanni d’Amore
5 Overview of the Basic Concepts of Electromagnetic Field Protection
Giovanni d’Amore, Sara Adda and Laura Anglesio
6 Biological Effects from Electromagnetic Field Exposure: The Experience of the European EFHRAN Project
Paolo Ravazzani, Emma Chiaramello, Serena Fiocchi, James Grellier, Marta Parazzini, Aslak Harbo Poulsen, Joachim Schüz and Zenon Sienkiewicz
7 LF Sources – Electromagnetic Field Exposure Assessment: Source Modelling and Theoretical Estimation of Exposure Levels
Aldo Canova and Luca Giaccone
8 RF Sources – Exposure Assessment of Mobile Phone Base Stations: 5th-Generation Wireless Communication Systems
Giorgio Bertin, Enrico Buracchini and Paolo Gianola
9 Electromagnetic Field Exposure Assessment in Workers and the General Public: Measurement Techniques and Experimental Dosimetry
Peter Gajšek
SECTION 3 Ionizing Radiation
Mauro Magnoni
10 Overview of the Basic Concepts of Radiation Protection
Daniele Giuffrida
11 Source of Radiation Exposure in the Workplace: Nuclear, Medical and Industrial Sources
Daniele Giuffrida
12 Environmental Radioactivity and Radioecology
Mauro Magnoni
13 Radon and NORM: Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials
Cristina Nuccetelli and Rosabianca Trevisi
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Gaetano Licitra is Coordinator of the Coastal Area of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Professor of Acoustics and Applied Acoustics at the University of Pisa, Italy.
Giovanni d’Amore is Director of the Radiation Department of the Environmental Protection Agency of Piedmont Region, Italy.
Mauro Magnoni is Head of the Ionizing Radiation Unit in the Radiation Department of the Environmental Protection Agency of Piedmont Region, Italy. He is also the President of Italian Radiation Protection Association.
Zusammenfassung
This book explores environmental physical agents and their potential effect on public and occupational health. It considers the theory, current research, and applications of physical agents and explores the monitoring, measurement, modeling and mitigation of each of these.
Zusatztext
"Scientific and technical readers will benefit from this book. Further review of its three sections reveals how this will likely happen. Those spending time with the first section will gain an appreciation of the complex phenomena ofnoise and vibrations relative to living and working environments. The second section then provides fundamental principles of electromagnetic fieldprotection. The last three chapters discuss ionizing radiation."John T. Pierce, MBBS(MD) PhD (Navy Environmental Health Center)
