Environmental medicine

This book is intended to be an introductory reference to green technology and design for the environment (GTDFE) for working professionals as well as a basic text for graduate course work in engineering, covering all facets of GTDFE.

The second edition of a bestseller, Soil and Water Chemistry: An Integrative Approach maintains the balanced perspective that made the first edition a hugely popular textbook.

This book educates, informs, and empowers the readers about the impact of toxic substances on living organisms and the environment by comprehensively exploring their effects.

Tremendous improvements in ground-water sampling methodologies and analytical technologies have made it possible to collect and analyze truly representative samples to detect increasingly lower levels of contaminants-now in the sub-parts-per-billion range.

Based on the International Workshop on Controlled Life-Cycle of Polymeric Materials held in Stockholm, this work examines degradable polymers and the recycling of plastic materials.

This fascinating work is divided into two main sections.

The increasing awareness of the effects of pollutants in the eco-system and on the development of suitable methods of analysis has stimulated a lot of research recently.

Even a cursory perusal of any analytical journal will demonstrate the increasing important of trace and ultra-trace analysis.

Difficult to measure accurately and deal with effectively, organic pollutants continue to be a major hazard in the environment.

This fascinating work is divided into two main sections.

This book discusses toxic Microcystis and the toxins from various viewpoints such as classification, cultivation, occurrences in lakes, and relations to zooplankton.

Based on the work and contributions of 46 scientists, managers, and policymakers, Ecological Assessment of Selenium in the Aquatic Environment documents the state of the science and explores how to use this information when assessing and managing the environmental effects of Se.

This book addresses the limited information on vision training and the importance of having knowledge of superior visual skills in our everyday, individualised environment including the classroom, workspace, and sports setting.

An Introduction to Environmental Epidemiology covers the basics of environmental exposure, health, and disease.

Phytotechnologies: Remediation of Environmental Contaminants highlights the use of natural and inherent traits of plants and associated microbes to exclude, accumulate, or metabolize a variety of contaminants, with the goal of efficiently and sustainably decontaminating the biosphere from unwanted hazardous compounds.

Friedrich Frischknecht provides an interesting insight into the lifestyles of parasites.

This book draws on the relationship between culture and the environment and its connection with health and well-being.

Volume 3: Conveniently gathering up-to-date information on herbicides' chemistry, degradation, and mode of action in one source, this reference discusses glyphosatc and the traits that have made it so successful .

An Introduction to Environmental Epidemiology covers the basics of environmental exposure, health, and disease.

From the PrefaceAntibody techniques have allowed us to study microorganisms in situ.

Overall, the negative health impacts of global climate change are anticipated to significantly outweigh positive impacts.

Seit Jahrtausenden zieht der Mond die Blicke und Träume der Menschheit auf sich.

El trabajo, eje transversal en el desarrollo economico y social, es un proceso necesario que busca la trasformacion del entorno y sus recursos para la busqueda de un bienestar colectivo e individual del ser humano.

Biological Effects of Low-Level Exposures, more commonly referred to as BELLE, began as a conference in May 1990.

A comprehensive and critical assessment of selenium levels in both natural and man-made materials and systems is presented in this publication.

This book is intended to be an introductory reference to green technology and design for the environment (GTDFE) for working professionals as well as a basic text for graduate course work in engineering, covering all facets of GTDFE.

Carefully crafted to provide a comprehensive overview of the chemistry of water in the environment, Water Chemistry: Green Science and Technology of Nature's Most Renewable Resource examines water issues within the broad framework of sustainability, an issue of increasing importance as the demands of Earth's human population threaten to overwhelm t

This publication is rare among those texts on pesticides in that it covers herbicides exclusively.

This publication is rare among those texts on pesticides in that it covers herbicides exclusively.

Filled with practical applications and research, Biodegradation of Nitroaromatic Compounds and Explosives presents an international perspective on environmental contamination from explosives.

This book discusses the need to establish social work for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) with an emphasis on the emerging role of effective and sustainable social interventions for the control and elimination of NTDs.

Chromatography has been developed as a powerful and rapid technique for the separation of compounds with highly similar molecular characteristics, even from complicated matrices.

Environmental Medicine is an indispensable aid to the investigation, diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of environmentally-acquired disorders.

In the 1950s, the residents of the southwestern coastal areas of Taiwan suffered greatly from Blackfoot disease (BFD) due to the consumption of arsenic-contaminated groundwater.

Obesity is a global pandemic rising beyond the status of a lifestyle disorder, and its consequences include impaired metabolism, energy disruption, and abdominal fat deposition and storage.

Sound forest management planning requires cost-efficient approaches to optimally utilize given resources.

Methods for determining exposure of pesticides to agricultural workers have been developing for over thirty years.

This book presents the latest findings in medical entomology in Japan and neighboring Asian countries.

Explore the critical importance of integrating the human element in aerospaceBased on cutting-edge researchWritten by experts from academia and industryExplores the use of extended reality technologiesIn the face of evolving technological and societal challenges, this book delves into advanced techniques essential for integrating the human element in aerospace operations and development.

Practical and provocative, Bioavailability reviews prevalent understanding of the physical-chemical-biological mechanisms that control the bioavailability of both organic and inorganic contaminants in aquatic environments.