Editors:
- Up-to-date review of the most significant environmental contaminants
- Ties environmental aspects with epidemiology/medical geography
- A special chapter devoted to the relationships between PHEs and human health
- Suggestions for avoiding intake of poisonous substances with daily diet
- Examines the exposure-dose-response effects of PHEs in the human population
- Includes current studies on the soil-plant system and links with the food chain
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is dedicated to the occurrence and behaviour of PHEs in the different compartments of the environment, with special reference to soil. Current studies of PHEs in ecosystems have indicated that many industrial areas near urban agglomerates, abandoned or active mines, major road systems and ultimately also agricultural land act as sources and at the same time sinks, of PHEs and large amounts of metals are recycled or dispersed in the environment, posing severe concerns to human health.
Thanks to the collaboration of numerous colleagues, the book outlines the state of art in PHEs research in several countries and is enforced with case studies and enriched with new data, not published elsewhere. The book will provide to Stakeholders (both Scientists Professionals and Public Administrators) and also to non-specialists a lot of data on the concentrations of metals in soils and the environment and the critical levels so far established, in the perspective to improve the environmental quality and the human safety.
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“This book, with contributions by 40-plus international research scientists/experts, carefully and comprehensively examines potentially harmful elements (PHEs) and their health effects. It is an up-to-date review/study of the conditions (environmental quality) of the soil, and to a lesser extent, the atmosphere and estuarine/coastal ecosystems on a global scale. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (A. S. Casparian, Choice, Vol. 52 (5), January, 2015)Editors and Affiliations
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Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali Informatica e Statistica, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy
Claudio Bini
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Faculty of Biology, Soil Sc. Lab., University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Jaume Bech
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: PHEs, Environment and Human Health
Book Subtitle: Potentially harmful elements in the environment and the impact on human health
Editors: Claudio Bini, Jaume Bech
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8965-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8964-6Published: 27 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0183-7Published: 16 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-8965-3Published: 14 May 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 467
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecotoxicology, Soil Science & Conservation, Life Sciences, general, Public Health
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology