PHEs, Environment and Human Health Potentially harmful elements in the environment and the impact on human health /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bini, Claudio (Editor), Bech, Jaume (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Environment.; Public health.; Life sciences.; Ecotoxicology.; Soil science.; Soil conservation.; Soil Science & Conservation.; Life Sciences, general.; Public Health.

Heavy metals in the environment continue to receive attention due to the greater understanding of their toxicological importance in ecosystems, agriculture and human health. Research on potentially harmful elements (PHEs) in life, agriculture and environmental sciences is extensively increasing sinc...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Potentially harmful elements in the atmosphere
• Chapter 2. Harmful elements in estuarine and coastal systems
• Chapter 3. Potentially Harmful Elements in Agricultural Soils
• Chapter 4. Potentially harmful elements in forest soils: A pedological viewpoint
• Chapter 5. Potentially Harmful Elements in Abandoned Mine Waste
• Chapter 6. Potentially harmful elements in urban soil
• Chapter 7. Remediation of potentially toxic elements in contaminated soils
• Chapter 8. Potential Hazardous elements fluxes from soil to plants and the food chain
• Chapter 9. Trace elements and food safety
• Chapter 10. Risk assessment of PHEs
• Chapter 11. Potentially harmful elements and human health.