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In recent years new strategies for the study of the environmental distribution and fate of contaminants were introduced and the research interests have progressively been displaced from the old retrospective and descriptive approaches to the predictive ones. The focus is the understanding of the more significant processes of transformation of chemical substances under “environmental” conditions, as well as the substance partition among the main environmental compartments (e.g.: water, air, soils and sediments, aquatic and terrestrial biomass). The predictive capability of present methods needs to be improved, particularly when complex phenomena have to be predicted in detail: these require complex models, and the knowledge of a great number of parameters.
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Bacci, E., Calamari, D. (1991). Air-To-Leaf Transfer of Organic Vapors to Plants. In: Travis, C.C. (eds) Municipal Waste Incineration Risk Assessment. Contemporary Issues in Risk Analysis, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3294-1_8
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