PH. BOURDEAU Directorate-General Science. Research and Development. Commission of the European Communities. Brussels. Belgium We are living on a unique planet, the only one in the solar system where life exists. The very existence of life has modified the physical and chemical environment of the earth, its atmosphere and oceans, in a way that makes life sustainable. This system with its complex cybernetic mechanisms has been named GAIA by Lovelock. Man has always interfered with it on a more or less limited scale. This interference is now reaching global proportions such as climate modifications resulting from CO and trace gas 2 accumulation in the atmosphere or the destruction of stratospheric ozone, not to speak of global radioactive contamination. GAIA will probably prevail as a living system but it probably does not give much importance to man's survival as such, and it is man that has to take care of his own survival. In the ecosystem of Planet Earth, soils are the thin interface between lithosphere and atmosphere which constitutes the essential substrate for the terrestrial biosphere, the productivity of which far exceeds that of the oceans, even though the latter cover a much larger area than the continents. Soils themselves are complex systems. They develop through weathering of minerals, are colonised by living organisms which in turn modify their substrate making it suitable for other organisms. This induces a primary ecological succession which eventually reaches a climax, in equilibrium between climate, soil and the biological communities.

Das Handbuch der gefahrlichen Guter ist ein Standardwerk fur den Transport von Gefahrgutern. Es gibt Informationen zu nationalen und internationalen Transportvorschriften und zu Notfallmassnahmen bei Unfallen sowie Hinweise fur die arztliche Erstbehandlung von Personen. Zusatzlich zu den neu aufgenommenen Gefahrstoffen sind jetzt auch die meisten der bisher noch nicht erfassten Kampfstoffe, die vor allem als Altlasten Bedeutung erlangt haben, im Band 6/2 aufgenommen.

Jeder Betrieb des produzierenden Gewerbes, der als fortschrittlich und zukunftsorientiert gelten will, wird sich in Kurze der EU-Oko-Audit-Verordnung unterziehen. Um eine entsprechende Akkreditierung zu erhalten, muss der Betrieb ein Umwelthandbuch erstellen. Der Autor des vorliegenden Werkes gibt im ersten Teil anhand eines Musterhandbuches eine detaillierte Arbeitsanweisung fur den betrieblichen Umweltschutz, wie die Organisation des Umweltschutzes vorgenommen werden soll und in welcher Weise die Dokumentation erfolgen muss. Integriert sind in diesem Teil sechs Praxisbeispiele von Szenarien fur Umweltbetriebsstorungen. Der zweite Teil des Buches enthalt hochaktuelle und bisher einzigartige Praxisbeispiele mit dem bisher nicht veroffentlichten Umweltschutzhandbuch der Fa. Franz Schneider und dem der Fa. Zenker.

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Many previous studies and books have been dedicated to fundamental and developmental aspects of biomarkers. The purpose of this book is to provide, through various case studies, an overview of the practical use of biological markers in marine animals to evaluate the health effects of environmental contamination in marine ecosystems.
More precisely, the book presents the results obtained during the development and application of biological markers as indicators of exposure/effect to toxic chemicals in marine environments, using diverse sentinel species such as fish, bivalves and crustaceans. An important aspect is also the publication of technical annexes that describe in detail the experimental procedures developed for both chemical and biochemical measurement.