Soil and Water Pollution Monitoring, Protection and Remediation

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXXIII

   PDF

2. Introduction: Spread and Distribution of Hazardous Chemicals in Soils and Water - A Global Problem

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XXXIII

      PDF

   2. DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF CONTAMINANTS IN THE GEOSPHERE

      • Uri Mingelgrin, Ahmed Nasser

      Pages 3-23

   3. PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN EGYPT - AN OVERVIEW

      • Mohamed Tawfic Ahmed

      Pages 25-38

3. Fate and Behavior of Anthropogenic Pollutants in Soils and Water

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XXXIII

      PDF

   2. FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN SORPTION RELATED TO PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL REMEDIATION OF SOILS

      • Joseph J. Pignatello

      Pages 41-68

   3. THE ROLE OF HUMIC SUBSTANCES IN THE FATE OF ANTHROPOGENIC ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN SOIL WITH EMPHASIS ON ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR COMPOUNDS

      • Elisabetta Loffredo, Nicola Senesi

      Pages 69-92

   4. INCORPORATING BIOAVAILABILITY INTO CRITERIA FOR METALS

      • Herbert E. Allen, Colin R. Janssen

      Pages 93-105

   5. THE METAL UPTAKE AND ACCUMULATION IN FISH LIVING IN POLLUTED WATERS

      • Barbara Jezierska, Małgorzata Witeska

      Pages 107-114

4. Advances in Chemical and Biological Techniques for Environmental Monitoring and Predicting

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XXXIII

      PDF

   2. SENSORISTIC APPROACH TO BIOLOGICAL DAMAGE AND RISK ASSESSMENT

      • Luigi Campanella, Cecilia Costanza

      Pages 117-130

   3. ADVANCED ENVIRONMENTAL BIOCHEMICAL SENSOR FOR WATER MONITORING

      • Guenther Proll, Jens Tschmelak, Joachim Kaiser, Peter Kraemmer, Frank Sacher, Jan Stien et al.

      Pages 131-145

   4. GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MICROORGANISMS FOR POLLUTION MONITORING

      • Shimshon Belkin

      Pages 147-160

   5. SOME ADVANCES IN ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYTICS AND MONITORING

      • Agata Kot-Wasik, Jacek Namieśnik

      Pages 161-174

   6. FIBER OPTIC SYSTEM FOR WATER SPECTROSCOPY

      • Anna G. Mignani, Andrea A. Mencaglia, Leonardo Ciaccheri

      Pages 175-186

   7. PREDICTING METAL UPTAKE BY PLANTS USING THE DGT TECHNIQUE

      • Hao Zhang, William Davison

      Pages 187-197

   8. ON CONCEPTUAL AND NUMERICAL MODELING OF FLOW AND TRANSPORT IN GROUNDWATER WITH THE AID OF TRACERS: A CASE STUDY

      • Jaroslaw Kania, Kazimierz Rozanski, Stanislaw Witczak, Andrzej Zuber

      Pages 199-208

5. Novel Physico-Chemical Techniques of Soil and Water Protection and Remediation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XXXIII

      PDF

   2. CURRENT AND FUTURE IN SITU TREATMENT TECHNIQUES FOR THE REMEDIATION OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES IN SOIL, SEDIMENTS, AND GROUNDWATER

      • Robert A. Olexsey, Randy A. Parker

      Pages 211-219

   3. LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE OF PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIERS: LESSONS LEARNED ON DESIGN, CONTAMINANT TREATMENT, LONGEVITY, PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND COST - AN OVERVIEW

      • Robert W. Puls

      Pages 221-229

In every respect, human development and human security are closely linked to the productivity of ecosystems. Our future rests squarely on their continued viability. UNDP, UNEP, World Bank, World Resources Institute: World Resources 2000- 2001. People and Ecosystems. The Fraying Web of Life. 1. OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK Soil, surface waters/sediments and shallow unprotected groundwater aquifers are interrelated compartments of the environment that are particularly easy to compromise, sensitive to short- and long-term pollution and directly affect sustainability of ecosystems and human health. Routine human activity such as application of fertilizers and pesticides in agriculture and forestry, or wet and dry deposition of atmospheric pollutants emitted from industrial plants, waste disposal and other practices adversely affect soil and water quality that already increasingly suffers from mismanagement in many areas. The predominant sources of pollution result in non-point contamination that is particularly difficult to reduce and control. Wars, accidents and natural emergency cases such as catastrophic floods that occur partly due to anthropogenically disturbed global water balance also add to overall increase of diverse contaminant loads in soil and water. Beneficial properties of some bulk waste materials such as biosolids (sewage sludge), biowaste (e. g. municipal waste composts) or fly ash from coal combustion xi xii Preface encourage applying these waste to land as a source of nutrients and organic matter, or as a soil amendment.

• Groundwater
• Migration
• Oxide
• Sediment
• Transport
• Water pollution
• biochemistry
• contaminants
• ecosystems
• pollution
• safety
• soil
• soil pollution
• toxicity
• toxicology
• water quality and water pollution
• ecotoxicology

• Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zabrze, Poland

  Irena Twardowska, Sebastian Stefaniak

• Center for Study of Metals in the Environment, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, U.S.A.

  Herbert E. Allen

• Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Biotechnology Center for Agriculture and the Environment, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, U.S.A.

  Max M. Häggblom

Policies and ethics