Sediment Quality and Impact Assessment of Pollutants

by Damia Barcelo (Editor), Mira Petrovic (Editor)

Overview

Volume 1 of the Sustainable Management of Sediment Resources mini-series is the first attempt to fill many of these gaps in knowledge and also in practice. The volume includes sections on:

• Sampling
• Characterization of contaminants in sediments being bioavailability the main issue
• Chemical analysis
• Biological analysis
• Effect directed analysis and toxicity
• Identification evaluation 
• Benthos sediment quality assessment
• Modelling of pollutant fate and behaviour
• Sediment quality guidelines

This first volume is applicable to a wide audience, from students at the graduate level, to experienced researchers and laboratory personnel in academia, industry and government. This volume also available as part of a 4-volume set, ISBN 0444519599. Discount price for set purchase.

• A broad overview on sediment quality and impact assessment of pollutants
• Suitable for both newcomers to the field of sediment treatment and specialists alike
• Outlines practical examples of methods used in sediment quality analysis

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080466675
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	09/29/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	348
File size:	12 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Prof. dr. Barcelo Damia, Director of the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA) and Professor at the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Barcelona, Spain. His expertise is in water quality assessment and management, fate, risk and removal of emerging contaminants in wastewater treatment plants and analysis, fate and risk of emerging contaminants and nanomaterials in the aquatic environment. He published over 900 papers, 200 book chapters and has h index 91. He was a coordinator of several national and EU projects and at the moment he coordinates two EU projects: GLOBAQUA , on multiple stressors in the aquatic environment and SEA-on-a-CHIP, on the development of sensor technolgies for emerging contamaints in marine aquaculture. He is CoEditor in Chief of the journal Science of Total Environment and the book series Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry, both form Elsevier..

Table of Contents

1. Sampling of sediment and suspended matter
2. Characterisation of contaminants in sediments - effects of bioavalability on impact
3. Chemical analysis of contaminants in sediments
4. Biological analysis (bioassays, biomarkers, biosensors)
5. Effect directed analysis and toxicity identification evaluation
6. Benthos sediment quality assessments
7. Modelling of pollutant fate and behaviour in bed sediments
8. Sediment quality guidelines and weight of evidence assessments
9. Soil protection, sediment monitoring and key recommendations

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

First volume in the mini-series, Sustainable management of sediment resources