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Organic Pollutants - An Ecotoxicological Perspective, Second Edition (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Organic Pollutants - An Ecotoxicological Perspective, Second Edition (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Difficult to measure accurately and deal with effectively, organic
pollutants continue to be a major hazard in the environment.
Significantly expanded, the second edition of Organic Pollutants:
An Ecotoxicological Perspective describes the mechanistic basis of
ecotoxicology, using major groups of pollutants as illustrative
examples, and explores the problem of complex mixtures of
chemicals. New in the Second Edition: Expanded coverage of complex
pollution problems and the exploitation of recent scientific and
technological developments to investigate them New chapters:
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and their Environmental Impacts and
Neurotoxicity and Behavioral Effects Additional information on
biomarker approaches and new technologies, such as microarrays
assays, developed to address complex pollution problems
Tried-and-True Format Presents Updated Information Keeping the same
format that made the first edition so popular, the text begins with
coverage of the basic principles underpinning the environmental
behavior and effects of organic pollutants. It then describes the
properties and ecotoxicology of major pollutants, discusses some
issues that arise after consideration of the material in the second
part of the text, and explores future prospects. Mechanistic
Approach Provides Basis for Development of New Strategies The book
takes a bottom up approach, describing the mechanisms by which
pollutants have harmful effects on living organisms and how these
effects are translated into adverse changes at the population
level. This mechanistic approach supplies the basis for development
of new mechanistic biomarker assays, which in turn provide measures
of toxic effect and not merely of exposure, and subsequently
provide evidence of causality between pollutant levels and
ecological changes.
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