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Author : Jerome O. Nriagu
Release : 1979
Genre : Medical
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Book Synopsis The Biogeochemistry of Mercury in the Environment by : Jerome O. Nriagu
Download or read book The Biogeochemistry of Mercury in the Environment written by Jerome O. Nriagu. This book was released on 1979. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael S. Bank
Release : 2012-05-31
Genre : Nature
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Book Synopsis Mercury in the Environment by : Michael S. Bank
Download or read book Mercury in the Environment written by Michael S. Bank. This book was released on 2012-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercury pollution and contamination are widespread, well documented, and continue to pose a public health concern in both developed and developing countries. In response to a growing need for understanding the cycling of this ubiquitous pollutant, the science of mercury has grown rapidly to include the fields of biogeochemistry, economics, sociology, public health, decision sciences, physics, global change, and mathematics. Only recently have scientists begun to establish a holistic approach to studying mercury pollution that integrates chemistry, biology, and human health sciences. Mercury in the Environment follows the process of mercury cycling through the atmosphere, through terrestrial and aquatic food webs, and through human populations to develop a comprehensive perspective on this important environmental problem. This timely reference also provides recommendations on mercury remediation, risk communication, education, and monitoring.
Author : Guangliang Liu
Release : 2011-11-07
Genre : Medical
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Book Rating : 638/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology of Mercury by : Guangliang Liu
Download or read book Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology of Mercury written by Guangliang Liu. This book was released on 2011-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the fundamentals, recent developments, and future research needs for critical mercury transformation and transport processes, as well as the experimental methods that have been employed in recent studies. The coverage discusses the environmental behavior and toxicological effects of mercury on organisms, including humans, and provides case studies at the end of each chapter. Bringing together information normally spread across several books, this text is unique in covering the entire mercury cycle and providing a baseline for what is known and what uncertainties remain in respect to mercury cycling.
Author : W. Baeyens
Release : 2012-12-06
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 805/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Global and Regional Mercury Cycles: Sources, Fluxes and Mass Balances by : W. Baeyens
Download or read book Global and Regional Mercury Cycles: Sources, Fluxes and Mass Balances written by W. Baeyens. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential themes in the biochemical cycling of mercury are the relative importance of anthropogenic versus natural sources, transformation and migration processes at the local, regional and global scale, global emission inventories of different mercury sources (both point and diffuse) of both natural and anthropogenic origin. In this regard, Siberia, with its vast territory and variety of natural zones, is of special interest in the global mercury cycle and in terms of the influence of geographical zones on source and sink terms in regional budgets. Siberia contains large areas of mercuriferous belts; natural deposits that emit mercury into the atmosphere and water. Siberian gold has been mined with the use of mercury since the early 1800s. But there, too, huge forest zones and vast areas of tundra and wetland (bogs) can act as efficient sinks for atmospheric mercury. Audience: Environmental scientists, legislators, politicians and the interested citizen wishing to gain a clear picture of the biogeochemical cycling of mercury.
Author : Marc Marcotte
Release : 2012-12-06
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Mercury in the Biogeochemical Cycle by : Marc Marcotte
Download or read book Mercury in the Biogeochemical Cycle written by Marc Marcotte. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays, major environmental issues are the object of large public debates de spite the fact that scientific knowledge is often insufficient to draw unequivocal conclusions. Such is the case in the ongoing debate regarding the specific contri butions of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and of natural climate changes to global warming. At least 10 to 20 years of additional observations will be re quired, before we will be able to conclude, with certainty, on this subject. In the mean time, and as directed by their immediate interests, people will continue to promote contradictory opinions. The media are, in part, responsible for perpetuat ing such debates in that they convey indiscriminately the opinion of highly credi ble scientists as that of dogmatic researchers, the latter, unfortunately too often expressing working hypotheses as established facts. Naturally, in a similarly mis informed manner, pressure groups tend to support the researcher whose opinions most closely represent either their particular ideological battles or their economic interests and, hence, in their own way, add further to the confusion and obscurity of the debate. Only a few years ago, mercury (Hg)contamination in hydroelectric reservoirs was the object of such media and social biases. At the time, analytical data used to support the discourse were themselves uncertain and numerous hypotheses, often times fanciful, were proposed and hastily "delivered" to the public.
