Ecology of Industrial Pollution (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Batty, Lesley C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Written for researchers and practitioners in environmental pollution, management and ecology, this interdisciplinary account explores the ecological issues associated with industrial pollution to provide a complete picture of this important environmental problem from cause to effect to solution. Bringing together diverse viewpoints from academia and environmental agencies and regulators, the contributors cover such topics as biological resources of mining areas, biomonitoring of freshwater and marine ecosystems and risk assessment of contaminated land in order to explore important questions such as: What are the effects of pollutants on functional ecology and ecosystems? Do current monitoring techniques accurately signal the extent of industrial pollution? Does existing policy provide a coherent and practicable approach? Case studies from throughout the world illustrate major themes and provide valuable insights into the positive and negative effects of industrial pollution, the provision of appropriate monitoring schemes and the design of remediation and restoration strategies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511739453
• Artikelnr.: 52863529

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Consequences of living in an industrial
world Lesley C. Batty and Kevin B. Hallberg; 2. Metallophytes: the unique
biological resource, its ecology and conservational status in Europe,
central Africa and Latin America Alan J. M. Baker, Wilfred H. O. Ernst,
Antony van der Ent, F. Malaisse and Rosanna Ginocchio; 3. Lichens and
industrial pollution William Purvis; 4. The impacts of metalliferous
drainage on aquatic communities in rivers and streams Lesley C. Batty,
Montserrat Auladell and Jon Sadler; 5. Impacts of emerging contaminants on
the environment Alistair Boxall; 6. Ecological monitoring and assessment of
pollution in rivers J. Iwan Jones, John Davy-Bowker, John F. Murphy and
James L. Pretty; 7. Detecting ecological effects of pollutants in the
aquatic environment Alastair Grant; 8. With the benefit of hindsight: the
utility of palaeoecology in wetland condition assessment and identification
of restoration targets Peter Gell; 9. An ecological risk assessment
framework for assessing risks from contaminated land in England and Wales
Stephen Roast, Tim Gannicliffe, Danielle K. Ashton, Rachel Benstead, Paul
R. Bradford, Paul Whitehouse and Declan Barraclough; 10. Diversity and
evolution of microorganisms and pathways for the degradation of
environmental contaminants: a case study with the s-triazine herbicides
Michael Sadowsky; 11. The microbial ecology of land and water contaminated
with radioactive waste: towards the development of bioremediation options
for the nuclear industry Andrea Geissler, Sonja Selenska-Pobell, Katherine
Morris, Ian T. Burke, Francis R. Livens and Jonathan R. Lloyd; 12. The
microbial ecology of remediating industrially-contaminated land: sorting
out the bugs in the system Ken Killham; 13. Ecological recovery in a river
polluted to its sources: the river Tame in the English Midlands Terry E.
Langford, Peter J. Shaw, Shelley R. Howard, Alastair J. D. Ferguson, David
Ottewell and Rowland Eley; 14. Manchester ship canal and Salford quays:
industrial legacy and ecological restoration Adrian E. Williams, Rachel J.
Waterfall, Keith N. White and Keith Hendry; 15. Large-scale mine site
restoration of Australian eucalypt forests after bauxite mining: soil
management and ecosystem development Mark Tibbett; 16. Sustaining
industrial activity and ecological quality: the potential roles of an
ecosystem services approach Lorraine Maltby, Achim Paetzold and Philip
Warren; Index.