Health Care and Environmental Contamination

Informationen zum Autor Professor, Environmental Department, University of York, UK Dr Rai Kookana is a Chief Research Scientist with CSIRO Land and Water, Australia. He is leading a research team on environmental chemistry and ecotoxicology of emerging contaminants. Rai did his PhD from the University of Western Australia (1989) and joined CSIRO as a research scientist in 1992. He has published several books, 25 book chapters, 240 journal papers, and many other peer-reviewed articles, on environmental fate, effects and ecological risk assessment of organic contaminants in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. His current ISI H-Index is 38 with total citations > 6000. Rai is on many national advisory committees and boards (e.g. the Science Fellow of Australian Pesticide and Veterinary Medicines Authority (2009-current) and is on editorial boards of 4 international journals. He has been one of the key advisors to IAEA/FAO Joint Division on Food and Environment CRP on pesticides involving several Latin American and Asian Countries. In 2012, Soil Science Society of America selected him as a Fellow of SSSA. Rai is currently serving as the Vice-President of the IUPAC Division on Chemistry and Environment.

Table des matières

1. Environmental Contaminants and Healthcare: An Introduction
2. Environmental contamination from Health-Care Facilities
3. Fate and Behaviour of Environmental Contaminants Arising from Health-Care Provision
4. Ecotoxicological Perspectives on Health-Care and the Environment
5. Terrestrial Ecotoxicity
6. Environmental Contaminants of Health-Care Origin: Exposure and Potential Effects on Wildlife
7. Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and Human Health
8. Antibiotic and Antibiotic Resistance: Closing the Loop Between Hospitals and the Environment
9. Antimicrobial Use and Ecotoxicological Risks from Pandemics and Epidemics
10. Management of Waste from the Health-Care Sector
11. Stewardship Approaches to Reducing Health-Care Contaminants
12. Management of Environmental Contaminants from Healthcare: Sustainable Pharmacy
13. Policy, Regulations and Risk Assessment

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Alistair Boxall
• Collaboration: Alistair Boxall (Editeur), Rai Kookana (Editeur), Rai S. Kookana (Editeur), Alistair Boxall (Editeur de la série), Kookana Rai S. (Editeur de la série)
• Edition: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780444638571
• ISBN: 978-0-444-63857-1
• Pages: 278
• Thèmes: Environmental Contaminants; Environmental Contaminants
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Technique > Technique de la construction et de l'environnement; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General, Science / Environmental Science, Waste Management, Management decision making, Waste treatment & disposal, Earth Sciences