Environmental Contamination

Edited by Jatin K Srivastava

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Abstract: Nature minimizes the hazards, while man maximizes them. This is not an assumption, but a basic idea of the findings of scientists from all over the world. The last two centuries have witnessed the indiscriminate development and overexploitation of natural resources by man causing alterations and impairment of our own environment. Environmental contamination is the result of the irrational use of resources at the wrong place and at the wrong time. Environmental contamination has changed the lifestyle of people virtually all over the world, and has reduced the extent of life on earth. Today, we are bound to compromises with such environmental conditions, which was not anticipated for the sustenance of humanity and other life forms. Let us find out the problem and its management within this book.

JEL-codes: Q52 Q53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
ISBN: 978-953-51-0120-8
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Bioindicator of Genotoxicity: The Allium cepa Test

Solange Bosio Tedesco and Haywood Dail Laughinghouse Iv

Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis: A picture in Portugal

Andre Almeida, Sonia Soares, Maria Lurdes Delgado, Antonio Castro, Jose Manuel Correia Da Costa and Elisabete Magalhaes Silva

Environmental Contaminations and Occupational Exposures Involved in Preparation of Chemotherapeutic Drugs

Shinichiro Maeda, Masako Oishi, Yoshihiro Miwa and Nobuo Kurokawa

It's All in the Genes: How Genotype Can Impact Upon Response to Contaminant Exposure and the Implications for Biomonitoring in Aquatic Systems

Bill Ballard, Pann Pann Chung and Ross Hyne

Manganese: A New Emerging Contaminant in the Environment

Annalisa Pinsino, Valeria Matranga and Maria Carmela Roccheri

Plants and Soil Contamination with Heavy Metals in Agricultural Areas of Guadalupe, Zacatecas, Mexico

Osiel González Dávila, Juan Miguel Gomez-Bernal and Esther Aurora Ruiz-Huerta

Production of Persistent Organic Pollutants from Cement Plants

Flavio Rodrigues

Recycling of Mine Wastes as Ceramic Raw Materials: An Alternative to Avoid Environmental Contamination

Romualdo Rodrigues Menezes, Lisiane Santana, Gelmires Neves and Heber Ferreira

Response of C3 and C4 Plant Systems Exposed to Heavy Metals for Phytoextraction at Elevated Atmospheric CO2 and at Elevated Temperature

Jatin K Srivastava, Harish Chandra, Anant R. Nautiyal and Swinder J. S. Kalra

Risk Assessment and Management of Terrestrial Ecosystems Exposed to Petroleum Contamination

Maria Kuyukina, Irena Ivshina, Sergey Makarov and James Philp

Sustainable Environment - Monitoring of Radionuclide and Heavy Metal Accumulation in Sediments, Algae and Biota in Black Sea Marine Ecosystems

Alexander Strezov

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DOI: 10.5772/1124

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