Environmental and Human Health : Risk Management in Developing Countries

ISBN-13: 9780415601627 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 290 str.

Eddie N. Laboy-Nieves; Mattheus F. A. Goosen

Opis

Examines and discusses multidisciplinary aspects of the impacts that humans had on the physical environment, the biota, and human health, focusing on the scenario of developing and under-developing countries. This book covers such areas as: environmental degradation, pollution, occupational health, risk management, epidemiology and toxicology.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Environmental and human health risk management: An overview  2. Tsunami hazards  3. Groundwater resources  4. Communicating environmental risks  5. Environmental management in Brazil  6. Atmospheric aerosols 7. Thillandsia sp. for monitoring PAHs 8. Cost-benefit analysis for risk management 9. Adjusted genuine savings and human development index 10. Sorbents to remove chromium from industrial wastewater discharges 11. Degradation of PCBs and spilled oil by bioenhancing agents  12. Impact of surface runoff on aquifers  13. Stormwater management practices 14. Sludge process for risk management 15. Health-related aspects of wastewater reuse 16. Cryptosporidium oocyst transmission 17. Ethnoecological restoration of deforested and agrocultural tropical lands.