Heavy Metals in the Environment: Impact, Assessment, and Remediation

ISBN-13: 9780128216569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 246 str.

Vinod Kumar; Anket Sharma; Artemi Cerd?

Spis treści

1. Heavy metals in the Ecosystem; Sources and their effects 2. Chemistry of Heavy metals in the environment 3. Geochemical background of heavy metals in the environment 4. Monitoring and Impact Assessment Approaches of heavy metals 5. Heavy metal contamination indices and ecological risk assessment index to assess metal pollution status in different soils 6. Combination of contamination indices and ecological risk assessment index for evaluation of pollution level in sediments 7. Use of multivariate statistical techniques to determine the source apportionment of heavy metals in soils and sediments 8. Human health risk assessment of heavy metals in different soils and sediments 9. Assessment of water quality using different pollution indices and multivariate statistical techniques 10. Heavy metal contamination in water and its possible sources 11. Application of GIS and remote sensing in heavy metal assessment 12. Remediation and detection techniques for heavy metals in the environment