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In order to assess the environmental exposure from chemicals in various media, you must know the rate at which a chemical will degrade. Handbook of Environmental Degradation Rates saves you the time and money collecting and evaluating this important information. The Handbook provides rate constant and half-life ranges for various processes and combines them into ranges for different media (air, groundwater, surface water, soils), which can be directly entered into various models. Some of the processes the Handbook includes are aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation, direct photolysis, hydrolysis, and reaction with various oxidants or free radicals (e.g., hydroxyl radical and ozone in the atmosphere). Experimental data are used and cited when available, and validated estimation methods are used when no experimental data are available. Researched and organized by leading experts, Handbook of Environmental Degradation Rates is easy-to-use and is well indexed by chemical name and CAS Number.
This 5-volume set allows you to assess the health and environmental
effects of chemicals by determining the routes of exposure of the
chemical to sensitive organisms. Environmental Fate and Exposure of
Organic Chemicals provides relevant facts on how individual
chemicals behave in the environment and how humans and
environmental organisms are exposed to the chemicals during their
production, rise, transport, and disposal. Each chemical is
prepared by one of the best-known organizations in environmental
fate and exposure and is peer-reviewed by a panel of expert
scientists. The information on each chemical includes all
experimental values and references for physical properties, all
chemical fate studies, and all available monitoring data and
interpretative summaries.
This 5-volume set allows you to assess the health and environmental
effects of chemicals by determining the routes of exposure of the
chemical to sensitive organisms. Environmental Fate and Exposure of
Organic Chemicals provides relevant facts on how individual
chemicals behave in the environment and how humans and
environmental organisms are exposed to the chemicals during their
production, rise, transport, and disposal. Each chemical is
prepared by one of the best-known organizations in environmental
fate and exposure and is peer-reviewed by a panel of expert
scientists. The information on each chemical includes all
experimental values and references for physical properties, all
chemical fate studies, and all available monitoring data and
interpretative summaries.
In order to assess the environmental exposure from chemicals in
various media, you must know the rate at which a chemical will
degrade. Handbook of Environmental Degradation Rates saves you the
time and money collecting and evaluating this important
information. The Handbook provides rate constant and half-life
ranges for various processes and combines them into ranges for
different media (air, groundwater, surface water, soils), which can
be directly entered into various models. Some of the processes the
Handbook includes are aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation, direct
photolysis, hydrolysis, and reaction with various oxidants or free
radicals (e.g., hydroxyl radical and ozone in the atmosphere).
Experimental data are used and cited when available, and validated
estimation methods are used when no experimental data are
available. Researched and organized by leading experts, Handbook of
Environmental Degradation Rates is easy-to-use and is well indexed
by chemical name and CAS Number.
In order to assess the health and environmental effects of a
chemical, you need to determine the exposure of the chemical to
sensitive organisms as well as to assess the likely effects. The
chemicals in Volume V of the Handbook of Environmental Fate and
Exposure Data for Organic Chemicals set are mostly solvents and
cover many of the natural products and hydrochlorofluorocarbons and
hydrofluorocarbons being considered as replacements for harmful
chlorinated solvents and chlorofluorocarbons. The chemicals are
listed in alphabetical order by their most easily recognized names.
A cumulative index allows you to look up each chemical by chemical
name synonym, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) number, and chemical
formula. Like all of the volumes in the series, this new volume
details how individual chemicals are released, transported, and
degraded in the environment, as well as how they are exposed to
humans and environmental organisms. Features oProvides useful
information for hazardous waste cleanup oHelps you to make exposure
assessments oProvides workplace exposure and ambient monitoring
data as well as detection in foods oIncludes information on
environmental persistence and transport oIncludes highly reliable
data prepared by a well-known firm in environmental fate
This 5-volume set allows you to assess the health and environmental
effects of chemicals by determining the routes of exposure of the
chemical to sensitive organisms. Environmental Fate and Exposure of
Organic Chemicals provides relevant facts on how individual
chemicals behave in the environment and how humans and
environmental organisms are exposed to the chemicals during their
production, rise, transport, and disposal.
Each chemical is prepared by one of the best-known organizations in
environmental fate and exposure and is peer-reviewed by a panel of
expert scientists. The information on each chemical includes all
experimental values and references for physical properties, all
chemical fate studies, and all available monitoring data and
interpretative summaries.
This 5-volume set allows you to assess the health and environmental
effects of chemicals by determining the routes of exposure of the
chemical to sensitive organisms. Environmental Fate and Exposure of
Organic Chemicals provides relevant facts on how individual
chemicals behave in the environment and how humans and
environmental organisms are exposed to the chemicals during their
production, rise, transport, and disposal.
Each chemical is prepared by one of the best-known organizations in
environmental fate and exposure and is peer-reviewed by a panel of
expert scientists. The information on each chemical includes all
experimental values and references for physical properties, all
chemical fate studies, and all available monitoring data and
interpretative summaries.
This 5-volume set allows you to assess the health and environmental
effects of chemicals by determining the routes of exposure of the
chemical to sensitive organisms. Environmental Fate and Exposure of
Organic Chemicals provides relevant facts on how individual
chemicals behave in the environment and how humans and
environmental organisms are exposed to the chemicals during their
production, rise, transport, and disposal.
Each chemical is prepared by one of the best-known organizations in
environmental fate and exposure and is peer-reviewed by a panel of
expert scientists. The information on each chemical includes all
experimental values and references for physical properties, all
chemical fate studies, and all available monitoring data and
interpretative summaries.
This 5-volume set allows you to assess the health and environmental
effects of chemicals by determining the routes of exposure of the
chemical to sensitive organisms. Environmental Fate and Exposure of
Organic Chemicals provides relevant facts on how individual
chemicals behave in the environment and how humans and
environmental organisms are exposed to the chemicals during their
production, rise, transport, and disposal.
Each chemical is prepared by one of the best-known organizations in
environmental fate and exposure and is peer-reviewed by a panel of
expert scientists. The information on each chemical includes all
experimental values and references for physical properties, all
chemical fate studies, and all available monitoring data and
interpretative summaries.
Who controls what we eat? This book reveals how dominant
corporations, from the supermarket to the seed industry, exert
control over contemporary food systems. It analyzes the strategies
these firms are using to reshape society in order to further
increase their power, particularly in terms of their bearing upon
the more vulnerable sections of society, such as recent immigrants,
ethnic minorities and those of lower socioeconomic status. Yet this
study also shows that these trends are not inevitable. Opposed by
numerous efforts, from microbreweries to seed saving networks, it
explores how opposition to this has encouraged even the most
powerful firms to make small but positive changes. This revised
edition has been updated to reflect recent developments in the food
system, as well as the broad political economic forces that shape
them. It also examines the rapidly changing technologies, such as
Big Data and automation, which have the potential to reinforce, as
well as to challenge, the power of the largest firms.
Nearly every day brings news of another merger or acquisition
involving the companies that control our food supply. Just how
concentrated has this system become? At almost every key stage of
the food system, four firms alone control 40% or more of the
market, a level above which these companies have the power to drive
up prices for consumers and reduce their rate of innovation.
Researchers have identified additional problems resulting from
these trends, including negative impacts on the environment, human
health, and communities. This book reveals the dominant
corporations, from the supermarket to the seed industry, and the
extent of their control over markets. It also analyzes the
strategies these firms are using to reshape society in order to
further increase their power, particularly in terms of their
bearing upon the more vulnerable sections of society, such as
recent immigrants, ethnic minorities and those of lower
socioeconomic status. Yet this study also shows that these trends
are not inevitable. Opposed by numerous efforts, from
microbreweries to seed saving networks, it explores how such
opposition has encouraged the most powerful firms to make small but
positive changes.
Who controls what we eat? This book reveals how dominant
corporations, from the supermarket to the seed industry, exert
control over contemporary food systems. It analyzes the strategies
these firms are using to reshape society in order to further
increase their power, particularly in terms of their bearing upon
the more vulnerable sections of society, such as recent immigrants,
ethnic minorities and those of lower socioeconomic status. Yet this
study also shows that these trends are not inevitable. Opposed by
numerous efforts, from microbreweries to seed saving networks, it
explores how opposition to this has encouraged even the most
powerful firms to make small but positive changes. This revised
edition has been updated to reflect recent developments in the food
system, as well as the broad political economic forces that shape
them. It also examines the rapidly changing technologies, such as
Big Data and automation, which have the potential to reinforce, as
well as to challenge, the power of the largest firms.
Nearly every day brings news of another merger or acquisition
involving the companies that control our food supply. Just how
concentrated has this system become? At almost every key stage of
the food system, four firms alone control 40% or more of the
market, a level above which these companies have the power to drive
up prices for consumers and reduce their rate of innovation.
Researchers have identified additional problems resulting from
these trends, including negative impacts on the environment, human
health, and communities. This book reveals the dominant
corporations, from the supermarket to the seed industry, and the
extent of their control over markets. It also analyzes the
strategies these firms are using to reshape society in order to
further increase their power, particularly in terms of their
bearing upon the more vulnerable sections of society, such as
recent immigrants, ethnic minorities and those of lower
socioeconomic status. Yet this study also shows that these trends
are not inevitable. Opposed by numerous efforts, from
microbreweries to seed saving networks, it explores how such
opposition has encouraged the most powerful firms to make small but
positive changes.
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