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Engineering Tools for Environmental Risk Management - 2. Environmental Toxicology (Paperback)
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Engineering Tools for Environmental Risk Management - 2. Environmental Toxicology (Paperback)
Series: Engineering Tools for Environmental Risk Management
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Chemical substances, physical agents and built structures exhibit
various types of hazard due to their inherent toxic, mutagenic,
carcinogenic, reprotoxic and sensitizing character or damaging to
the immune and hormone system. The first steps in managing an
environment contaminated by chemical substances are
characterization of hazards and quantification of their risks.
Chemical models - using only analytical data - are still the most
widely used applications for assessing potential adverse effects
and the fate and behavior of chemicals in the environment. Chemical
models rely on the assumption that the adverse effect is
proportional to the concentration, which in most cases is
incorrect. In this volume, other models such as biological and
ecological or regression models are discussed in detail and
compared. Environmental risk management has two subsections: risk
assessment and risk reduction. Environmental risk, to a large
extent, arises from the adverse effects of chemicals and
contaminated land; that is why measuring and testing these effects
plays a key role in risk management. "Environmental Toxicology"
deals with direct measurement of adverse effects of pure chemicals
or environmental samples. This book has therefore been created
specifically for engineers and gives a general overview of
environmental toxicology. It provides an overview of hundreds of
standardized and nonstandardized, generic and site-specific,
conventional and innovative, animal and alternative test methods,
and demonstrates how to apply these results to the regulation and
management of environmental risk. In addition to human, aquatic and
terrestrial methods for measuring toxicity, new trends in
environmental analytics and the integration and complementary use
of chemical analyses and the testing of effects are described.
Bioavailability and accessibility as key parameters are detailed
and the interactive and dynamic characterization of contaminants in
soil is introduced. Emphasis is placed on the evaluation and
interpretation of environmental fate and adverse effect data as
well as the simulation of environmental processes and effects in
microcosms and mesocosms.
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