Environmental toxicity testing
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Environmental toxicity testing
Blackwell , CRC Press, 2005
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Includes bibliographies and index
内容説明・目次
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: us ISBN 9780849323997
内容説明
The rapid expansion of the world's population, combined with industrial progress, has made a significant impact on the world's ecosystems. Ecosystems related to the aquatic environment represent the primary concern, but the terrestrial environment is also a major challenge for the foreseeable future, in view of increasing demands on available land resources and the need for remediation and reclamation.
This volume provides a working knowledge of monitoring issues for those who commission environmental toxicity tests or are required to use them. It discusses interpretation and application of the results, together with any caveats, and considers recent progress in the development of rapid and novel methods. Ecotoxicity is one of the hottest topics in contaminated land assessment.
The volume is directed at industrial chemists, process engineers, analytical chemists, environmental consultants and ecologists - the "non-experts" who have a direct interest in ecotoxicity, rather than the ecotoxicologists.
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: uk ISBN 9781405118194
内容説明
As an integral component of environmental policy, it has become essential to regulate and monitor toxic substances. Past emphasis has been primarily on analytical approaches to the detection of specific, targeted contaminants, thus allowing chemical characterisation. However, toxicity testing or biological assessment is necessary for ecotoxicological evaluation, and this offers marked benefits and advantages that complement chemical analysis.
Key issues to be addressed include identification of pertinent tests, reproducibility and robustness of these tests, and cost considerations.This book examines these issues and describes and explains the approaches that have been developed for environmental toxicity evaluations. Advantages, benefits and drawbacks of the strategies and methods are highlighted.
Directed equally at ecotoxicologists, industrial chemists, analytical chemists and environmental consultants, this book is written in a way that will prove helpful to both new and experienced practitioners.
目次
1. Historical perspective and overview. Jim Wharfe, Science Group, Environment Agency, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK.
2. Effective monitoring of the environment for toxicity.
Ian Johnson and Paul Whitehouse, Water Research Centre, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, UK, and Mark Crane, Crane Consultants, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, UK.
3. The nature and chemistry of toxicants.
Ulf Lidman, Department of Biology, University of Kalmar, Sweden.
4. Frameworks for the application of toxicity data.
Maria Consuelo Diaz-Baez and Bernard J. Dutka, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ingenieria Ambiental, Bogota, Colombia.
5. The aquatic environment.
William L. Goodfellow Jnr, EA Engineering Science and Technology, Sparks, Maryland, USA.
6. Biological methods for assessing potentially contaminated soils.
David J. Spurgeon, Claus Svendsen and Peter K. Hankard, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, UK.
7. Review of biomarkers and new techniques for in situ aquatic studies with bivalves.
Francois Gagne and Christian Blaise, Environment Canada, Montreal, Canada.
8. Environmental monitoring for genotoxic compounds.
Johan Bierkens, Ethel Brits and Luc Verschaeve, VITO Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Mol, Belgium.
9. Approach to legislation in a global context:.
A - UK perspective.
Jim Wharfe, National Centre for Ecotoxicology and Hazardous Substances, Environment Agency, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK.
B - Netherlands perspective - Soils and Sediments.
Michiel Rutgers, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands and Piet den Besten, Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste Water Treatment (RIZA), Ministry of Transport, Lelystad, The Netherlands.
C - German perspective.
Hans-Jurgen Pluta and Monika Rosenberg, Umweltbundesamt, Berlin, Germany.
D - USA perspective.
Barbara Brown and Margarete Heber, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC, USA.
10. Case study: whole effluent assessment using a combined biodegradation and toxicity approach.
Graham F. Whale and Nigel S. Battersby, Shell R & T Centre, Chester, UK.
11. Potential future developments in ecotoxicology.
Wim De Coen, Geert Huyskens, Roel Smolders, Freddy Dardenne, Johan Robbens, Marleen Maras and Ronny Blust, Laboratory for Ecophysiology, Biochemistry and Toxicology, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
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