Environmental and Food Safety and Security for South-East Europe and Ukraine

Herausgegeben:Vitale, Ksenija

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book covers important aspects of the field of food security and safety, ranging from fundamental production, through advanced water treatment technologies and detection of novel pollutants, to management and policy making. The discussion strives to develop an integrated approach to solving the associated problems by simultaneously considering sociological, ecological and economic aspects. Special focus is on the environmental management systems that should be integrated in the processes of environmental risk assessment. Also addressed are other technologies applied in the service of detecting, preventing and monitoring possible threats to food security and safety. With its variety of subjects, this volume can serve both as a textbook for advanced studies and as a useful reference source for professionals.

Produktdetails

• NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 80063820, 978-94-007-2952-0
• 1st Edition.
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9789400729520
• ISBN-10: 9400729529
• Artikelnr.: 34430930

Inhaltsangabe

Defending the Safety of the Global Food System: Advances in Food Security and Safety.- Food Safety System in Croatia.- Bioactive Compounds of Georgian National Food: Determination of Antioxidant Activity.- Eco-Friendly Food Processing: 21^st Century Challenges.- Reach Regulation - A Prerequisite for Health and Environmental Safety: Lithuanian Case.- Evolution, Efficiency and Challenges of Environmental Management in Bulgarian Agriculture.- Environmental Security and its Economical Aspect.- Sustainable Strategies of Phytoremediation of the Sites Polluted with Obsolete Pesticides.- Innovative Method for Utilization of Wastewater for Security and Safety in Rural Areas.- Three Stage Biotechnology for the Rehabilitation of Soils Polluted with Explosives.- Transfer of Radionuclides to Crops, Foodstuff Contamination and Application of Countermeasures.- Sustainability of Mining Waste in Basin Bor, Serbia.- Electrolyzer for Production of Environmentally Safe Functional Aqueous Solutions: Analysis of Mass Transfer in Annulus.- Electrochemical Incineration of Some Phenolic Compounds and MTBE.- The Status of Research on Constructed Wetlands.- Effects of Hurricane Katrina on Land Cover within the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Mississippi, USA.- Protecting and Improving Water Quality in Vojvodina.- Public Health Risks and Economic Impact of Counterfeit Medicines.- Patients Practice and Knowledge of Pharmaceuticals Disposal: Example from Some Rural Areas of Croatia.- Endemic (Balkan) Nephropathy - A Disease Caused by Aristolochic ACID.- Catastrophe Medicine and Environmental Security: The Dietary Grape Polyphenol Concentrate Enoant as Functional Food in Prevention and Treatment.- Thinner Exposure and Memory and Learning Deficits.- Environmental and Drug Induced Renal Damage; the Way to Protect.- Conservation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Croatia.