Crisis Management of Chronic Pollution: Contaminated Soil and Human Health

ISBN-13: 9780367658373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 290 str.

Magalie Lesueur Jannoyer; Philippe Cattan; Thierry Woignier

Opis

Crisis Management of Chronic Pollution: Contaminated Soil and Human Health deals with a long term pollution problem, generated by the former use of organochlorine pesticides. Through a case study of the chlordecone pollution in the French West Indies, the authors illustrate a global and systemic mobilization of research i

Spis treści

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Editors

Contributors

Section I Introduction

Chapter 1: Chlordecone Case Study in the French West Indies

Chapter 2: From Controversy to Pollution Assessment: A Chronicle of the Chlordecone Crisis Management

Section II Environmental Diagnosis: Pollution Assessment of Natural Resources

Chapter 3: Heterogeneity of Soil Pollution

Chapter 4: Characterization of River Pollution at the Watershed Scale

Chapter 5: Groundwater Quality Assessment

Section III Biotope Contamination and Eco-Toxicological Assessment (Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems)

Chapter 6: Environmental Assessment of Rivers: What Have We Learnt from Implementation and Results of the First Chlordecone National Action Plan?

Chapter 7: Contamination of Freshwater Fauna

Chapter 8: Assessment of Chlordecone Content in the Marine Fish Fauna around the French West Indies Related to Fishery Management Concerns

Section IV Pollutant Transfers

Chapter 9: From Fields to Rivers: Chlordecone Transfer in Water

Chapter 10: From Soil to Plants: Crop Contamination by Chlordecone

Chapter 11: Transfer of Chlordecone from the Environment to Animal-Derived Products

Section V The Public Health Issue: Exposure and Health Impacts

Chapter 12: West Indian Population’s Food Exposure to Chlordecone and Dietary Risk Assessment

Chapter 13: Chlordecone Impact on Pregnancy and Child Development in the French West Indies

Section VI Remediation

Chapter 14: Theoretical Approach to Chlordecone Biodegradation

Chapter 15: Reduced Pesticide Bioavailability in Soil by Organic Amendment

Chapter 16: Remediation of Chlordecone-Contaminated Waters Using Activated Carbons

Section VII Management Approach

Chapter 17: Chlordecone Contamination at the Farm Scale: Management Tools for Cropping System and Impact on Farm Sustainability

Chapter 18: The Family Gardens Health Program: A Tool for Reducing the Exposure of Populations to Chlordecone in the French West Indies

Chapter 19: The Challenge of Knowledge Representation to Better Understand Environmental Pollution

Section VIII Conclusion

Chapter 20: Crisis Management of Chronic Pollution by Chlordecone: Conclusions

Index

O autorze

Magalie Lesueur Jannoyer, Philippe Cattan, Thierry Woignier, Florence Clostre