M. Manzurul Hassan

Arsenic in Groundwater (eBook, ePUB)

Poisoning and Risk Assessment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Arsenic-contaminated groundwater has created one of the world's largest environmental health crises. This book addresses the arsenic issue within a scientific and social science framework, with the context set by environmental and legal considerations. The text explores the methodological issues of spatial, quantitative, and qualitative enquiries on arsenic poisoning, for instance, using GIS to investigate the distribution of arsenic-laced water in space-time to uncover the pattern of variations over scales from meters to kilometers. The authors also include spatial risk maps that indicate the possible long-term strategies of mitigation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 377
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351643238
• Artikelnr.: 54144404

Autorenporträt

Dr. Manzurul Hassan is Professor of Geography and Environment, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is also part-time faculty in the Department of Public Health, and in the Department of Environmental Science and Management, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. His research interests include the groundwater arsenic poisoning, medical waste management, climate change and human health, water supply and sanitation, and Geographical Information Systems. He has written a significant number of papers/chapters in peer-reviewed journals and books. He has a wide range of consulting experience in the above fields as well as monitoring and evaluation, air quality monitoring, and environmental assessment with many national and international organisations.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgment
Author
Chapter 1 Arsenic Poisoning through Ages: Victims of Venom
Chapter 2 Groundwater Arsenic Catastrophe: The Global Scenario
Chapter 3 Groundwater Arsenic Discontinuity: Spatial Mapping, Spatial
Planning and Public Participation
Chapter 4 Chronic Arsenic Exposure to Drinking Water: An Environmental
Health Concern
Chapter 5 Risk from Groundwater Arsenic Exposure: Epidemiological and
Spatial Assessment
Chapter 6 Arsenic-Induced Health and Social Hazard and Survival Strategies:
Experiences from Arsenicosis Patients
Chapter 7 Policy Response and Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh
Chapter 8 Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh and Legal Issues of
Responsibility
Chapter 9 Epilogue and Way Forward
Bibliography
Index