Title Mercury in the Environment : Pattern and Process / edited by Michael S. Bank

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (361 pages) Contents Cover; MERCURY IN THE ENVIRONMENT; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PART ONE Mercury Cycling in the Environment; 1 Sources and Transport: A Global Issue; 2 Industrial Use of Mercury in the Ancient World; PART TWOMethods for Research, Monitoring, and Analysis; 3 Analytical Methods for Measuring Mercury in Water, Sediment, and Biota; 4 Use of Stable Isotopes in Mercury Research; 5 Atmospheric Chemistry, Modeling, andBiogeochemistry of Mercury; 6 A Framework for a Mercury Monitoring andAssessment Program: Synthesis and FutureResearch PART THREEMercury in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments7 The Role of Soils in Storage and Cyclingof Mercury; 8 Mercury Cycling in Terrestrial Watersheds; 9 Mercury Hotspots in Freshwater Ecosystems:Drivers, Processes, and Patterns; 10 Mercury in the Marine Environment; PART FOURToxicology, Risk Analysis, Humans, and Policy; 11 Ecotoxicology of Mercury in Fish and Wildlife:Recent Advances; 12 Risk Evaluation of Mercury Pollution; 13 Mercury and Public Health: An Assessment of HumanExposure; 14 Mercury Exposure in Vulnerable Populations:Guidelines for Fish Consumption 15 Environmental Justice: The Mercury Connection16 Integrating Mercury Science and Environmental Policy:A State Perspective; INDEX Summary Mercury pollution and contamination are widespread, well documented, and continue to pose a public health concern in both developed and developing countries. In response to a growing need for understanding the cycling of this ubiquitous pollutant, the science of mercury has grown rapidly to include the fields of biogeochemistry, economics, sociology, public health, decision sciences, physics, global change, and mathematics. Only recently have scientists begun to establish a holistic approach to studying mercury pollution that integrates chemistry, biology, and human health sciences. Mercury in Analysis aquatic food webs atmospheric environment atmospheric mercury bioaccumulation biogeochemistry climate change environmental conservation environmental protection global change going green human health sciences human health mercury contamination mercury pollution nature and pollution planetary changes pollution and ecology pollution and economics pollution and environment pollution and global change pollution and public health public health studying mercury terrestrial food webs Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Mercury -- Environmental aspects Mercury -- Bioaccumulation Mercury -- Toxicology. Mercury -- Health aspects TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control. NATURE -- Ecology. Mercury -- Bioaccumulation Mercury -- Environmental aspects Mercury -- Health aspects Mercury -- Toxicology Umweltbelastung Quecksilberbelastung Bioakkumulation Schadstoffbelastung Quecksilber Toxikologie Form Electronic book Author Bank, Michael S LC no. 2011052057 ISBN 9780520951396 0520951395 0520271637 9780520271630 9781280492136 1280492139 9786613587367 6613587362

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