Heavy Metals in the Environment

ISBN-13: 9781566704014 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 344 str.

Howard T. Odum

Opis

Much of the convenience of modern life resides in sheet metal, the cow ling shield of most machines and appliances. However, the load that th is takes off human shoulders has to be carried elsewhere, and the Eart h has borne the burden. Many of us woke up to the environmental cost w hen over a century of industrialization finally surpassed the capacity of nature to assimilate it. International in scope, Heavy Metals in t he Environment: Using Wetlands for Their Removal discusses wetland fun ctions and heavy metal contamination. It addresses such questions as: Can systems powered by sunlight handle toxins more effectively than sy stems running on fossil fuel? At what scale and by what means do we de fine efficiency? These questions resonate increasingly with a number o f global challenges.

Spis treści

Contents
Introduction and Background. Lead in a Cypress-Gum Swamp, Jackson County, Florida. Lead and Wetlands in Poland. Value and Policy. Appendices. References.

O autorze

Howard T. Odum, Wlodzimierz Wójcik, Lowell Pritchard, Shanshin Ton, Joseph J. Delfino, Malgorzata Wójcik, Slawomir Leszczynski, Jay D. Patel , Steven J. Doherty, Jacek Stasik