Metal Contamination in Aquatic Environments - Science and Lateral Management

Klappentext Explanation of why controversies exist in managing metal contamination! highlighting opportunities for policy solutions and effective management in the future. Zusammenfassung This book is a uniquely international and interdisciplinary synthesis of metal contamination in aquatic environments. Integrating geochemistry! biology! ecology and toxicology as well as policy and science! it explicitly shows how science ties into today's regulatory structure and identifies opportunities for more effective risk management in the future. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Conceptual underpinnings: science and management; 3. Historical and disciplinary context; 4. Sources and cycles of trace metals; 5. Concentrations and speciation of metals in natural waters; 6. Trace metals in suspended particulates and sediments: concentrations and geochemistry; 7. Trace metal bioaccumulation; 8. Biomonitors; 9. Manifestation of the toxic effects of trace metals: the biological perspective; 10. Toxicity testing; 11. Manifestation of metal effects in nature; 12. Mining and metal contamination: science, controversies and policies; 13. Selenium: dietary exposure, trophic transfer and food web effects; 14. Organometals: tributyl tin and methyl mercury; 15. Hazard rankings and water quality guidelines; 16. Sediment quality guidelines; 17. Harmonizing approaches to managing metal contamination: integrative and weight of evidence approaches; 18. Conclusions: science and policy.

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• Authors: Samuel N. Luoma, Samuel N. (Research Professor Luoma, Samuel N. Rainbow Luoma, Luoma Samuel N., Philip S. Rainbow, Rainbow Philip S.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521279017
• ISBN: 978-0-521-27901-7
• No. of pages: 588
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biochemistry, biochemistry, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Toxicology (non-medical)