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Soil Pollution - Sources, Management Strategies and Health Effects (Hardcover)
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Soil Pollution - Sources, Management Strategies and Health Effects (Hardcover)
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Soil pollution receives less attention when compared to air
pollution and water pollution. However, soil pollution is grabbing
more attention nowadays. Undoubtedly, soil is an indispensable
environmental matrix for the growth of any terrestrial plants.
Nevertheless, the rapid growth rate of population expansion and
urbanization exceeds the sustainability and recovery capability of
the ecosystem. This has virtually resulted in soil pollution. The
sources of soil pollution can come from various point and non-point
sources. Of the obvious and commonest ones are domestic wastes,
untreated or insufficient treatment of industrial discharges,
husbandry wastes and agricultural uses of fertilizers, pesticides
and herbicides. The purpose of this book is to provide the latest,
if not the complete, updated information regarding the soil
pollution from three main perspectives, namely, sources, health
effects and management strategies in the agricultural and urban
areas. The intended readers of this book include academicians,
policy-makers, university students, teachers and researchers. This
book contains eleven chapters. All chapters in this book consist of
sources of pollutants (heavy metal monitoring) (Chapters One,
Three, Six, Seven, Eight, Ten and Eleven), the application of the
monitoring data for the human health risk assessment (Chapters One,
Four, Five and Nine), and lastly, management strategies for the
polluted soils (Chapters Two, Ten and Eleven). This book presents a
thorough compilation of existing information on soil heavy metal
pollution in the form of critical review papers (Chapters One, Two,
Ten and Eleven) as well as original research papers (Chapters
Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight and Nine). The invitation of
prominent scientists from Japan such as Prof. Hideo Okamura (Kobe
University, Japan), Prof. Hiroya Harino (Kobe College, Japan), Dr.
Ye Feng and Dr. Muzembo Basilua Andre (both from the National
Institute of Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan), Prof. Alireza
Riyahi Bakhtiari (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran), and Dr. Salman
Abdo Al-Shami (University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia), who co-authored
some of the chapters have helped to improve the quality of the
chapters in this book. Additionally, chapters from Prof. Chen-Feng
You from the National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan), Prof. Monica
Butnariu from Banats University of Agricultural Sciences and
Veterinary Medicine (Romania) and Dr. Nadi Awad Al-Harbi from Tabuk
University (Saudi Arabia) are also important elements in the
construction of international readership for this book.
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