Pollutants, Human Health and the Environment

A Risk Based Approach
Herausgegeben von Plant, Jane A.; Voulvoulis, Nick; Ragnarsdottir, K. Vala

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Produktbeschreibung

Pollutants, Human Health and the Environment is a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of environmental pollutants that are of current concern to human health.

Clearly structured throughout, the main body of the book is divided by pollutant type with a chapter devoted to each group of pollutants. Each chapter will follow a similar format to facilitate comparison and discussion. For each pollutant, the authors describe the sources, pathways, environmental fate and sinks as well as known toxicological effects. Importantly the second chapter on heavy metals and other inorganic substances will deal with trace element deficiencies which can have serious problems for human health. Some rocks and soils are naturally low in some trace elements and intensive agriculture over the past half century has effectively mined many trace elements reducing their levels in soils and crops. The final chapter will be a discussion about the various risk assessment frameworks and regulations covering the main pollutants.
Comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of environmental pollutants of concern to human health
Clearly divided into pollutant type with each chapter devoted to a different pollutant group
Clearly structured throughout with the same format for each chapter to help facilitate comparison and discussion and enable readers to prioritise chemicals of concern
Description of the sources, pathways, environmental fate and known toxicological effect
Includes contributions from leading researchers and edited by a team of experts in the field

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 14574260000
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 266mm x 200mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9780470742600
• ISBN-10: 0470742607
• Artikelnr.: 34550694

Autorenporträt

Professor Jane Plant is a leading geochemist based at Imperial who has made major contributions to Earth and Environmental Science, concentrating on issues of particular relevance to society. Professor Plant is an international expert on chemicals in the environment, especially the naturally occurring radionuclides such as uranium and the trace elements arsenic and selenium. She developed the BGS Geochemical Baseline of the Environment (G-BASE) programme which maps the distribution of many different chemicals over the land surface of the UK and allows their interactions to be studied using geographical information systems or other digital methods. She developed the methods of systematically and reproducibly sampling and analysing sediment, soil and water samples, as well as the first quality-control systems for such data. The standard of the data is widely acknowledged as the best in the world, and the methods have been adopted by the IUGS/IAGC Global Geochemical Baseline Programme, which she leads jointly with the United States Geological Survey. She has used the data for many environmental studies, including issues related to human health and agriculture. She and her team have worked on problems related to human health in Asia and Africa helping, for example, to identify the relationship between a lack of available selenium in parts of China with the incidence of a type of heart disease.

Inhaltsangabe

Forewords xi Tribute xiii The Editors xv Contributors xvii Acknowledgements
xix Introduction 1 Jane A. Plant, Nikolaos Voulvoulis and K. Vala
Ragnarsdottir 1 The scientific appraisal of hazardous substances in the
environment 5 Olwenn V. Martin and Jane A. Plant 1.1 Introduction 5 1.2
Fundamental concepts of toxicology 5 1.3 Some notions of environmental
epidemiology 13 1.4 Scientific evidence and the precautionary principle 19
1.5 Uncertainty and controversy: the endocrine disruption example 20 1.6
Concluding remarks 23 References 23 2 Regulatory systems and guidelines for
the management of risk 27 Dieudonne-Guy Ohandja, Sally Donovan, Pamela
Castle, Nikolaos Voulvoulis and Jane A. Plant 2.1 Introduction 27 2.2
Current regulation on chemicals 28 2.3 Guideline values 34 2.4 Conclusions
and recommendations 47 References 47 3 Essential and beneficial trace
elements 53 Xiyu Phoon, E. Louise Ander and Jane A. Plant 3.1 Introduction
53 3.2 Hazardous properties 56 3.3 Sources 59 3.4 Environmental pathways 63
3.5 Effects on human receptors 68 3.6 Risk reduction 77 References 79 4
Toxic trace elements 87 Jilang Pan, Ho-Sik Chon, Mark R. Cave, Christopher
J. Oates and Jane A. Plant 4.1 Introduction 87 4.2 Hazardous properties 89
4.3 Sources 90 4.4 Environmental pathways 94 4.5 Effects on human receptors
101 4.6 Risk reduction 107 References 108 5 Radioactivity and radioelements
115 Jane A. Plant, Barry Smith, Xiyu Phoon and K. Vala Ragnarsdottir 5.1
Introduction 115 5.2 Hazardous properties 122 5.3 Sources 125 5.4
Environmental pathways 132 5.5 Bioaccessibility and bioavailability 136 5.6
Risk reduction 139 References 141 6 Industrial chemicals 147 Danelle
Dhaniram, Alexandra Collins, Khareen Singh and Nikolaos Voulvoulis 6.1
Introduction 147 6.2 Hazardous properties 148 6.3 Sources 156 6.4
Environmental pathways 161 6.5 Human health 164 6.6 Risk reduction and
future trends 170 References 172 7 Agricultural pesticides and chemical
fertilisers 181 Rebecca McKinlay, Jason Dassyne, Mustafa B. A. Djamgoz,
Jane A. Plant and Nikolaos Voulvoulis 7.1 Introduction 181 7.2 Pesticides
183 7.3 Fertilisers 195 7.4 Risk reduction for pesticides and chemical
fertilisers 197 References 199 8 Pharmaceuticals and personal-care products
207 James Treadgold, Qin-Tao Liu, Jane A. Plant and Nikolaos Voulvoulis 8.1
Introduction 207 8.2 Hazardous properties 208 8.3 Anthropogenic sources 210
8.4 Pathways and environmental fate 215 8.5 Physiological effects 218 8.6
Risk assessment, communication and reduction 219 8.7 Future trends 220
References 221 9 Naturally occurring oestrogens 229 Olwenn V. Martin and
Richard M. Evans 9.1 Introduction 229 9.2 Hazardous properties 231 9.3
Sources 240 9.4 Environmental pathways 241 9.5 Effects on humans 243 9.6
Risk reduction 248 References 249 10 Airborne particles 255 Edward
Derbyshire, Claire J. Horwell, Timothy P. Jones and Teresa D. Tetley 10.1
Introduction 255 10.2 Hazardous properties 257 10.3 Sources 261 10.4 Global
pathways 266 10.5 Health effects of inhaled particulate material 270 10.6
Risk reduction and future trends 277 References 281 11 Engineered
nanomaterials 287 Superb K. Misra, Teresa D. Tetley, Andrew Thorley, Aldo
R. Boccaccini and Eugenia Valsami-Jones 11.1 Introduction 287 11.2 Useful
and hazardous properties 289 11.3 Sources of NPs 299 11.4 Environmental
pathways 300 11.5 Regulation and effects on human receptors 301 11.6 Future
trends and risk reduction 312 References 313 Conclusions: pollutants, risk
and society 319 Richard Owen, Jane A. Plant, K. Vala Ragnarsdottir and
Nikolaos Voulvoulis Index 327