Heavy metal contamination of water and soil
Subtitle: analysis, assessment, and remediation strategies
By: edited by Elham Asrari, PhD
Publisher: Apple Academic Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Toronto; New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781771880046
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Heavy metals; Environmental aspects; Water; Pollution; Soil pollution; Analysis; Soils; Water quality; Quality; Soil remediation; Purification
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Heavy metals in contaminated soils : a review of sources, chemistry, risks and best available strategies for remediation / Raymond A. Wuaana and Felix E. Okieimen; title: Heavy metal contamination.  Leaching behavior of heavy metals and transformation of their speciation in polluted soil receiving simulated acid rain / Shun-an Zheng, Xiangqun Zheng, and Chun Chen; title: Spatially explicit analysis of metal transfer to biota : influence of soil contamination and landscape / Clémentine Fritsch, Michaël Coeurdassier, Patrick Giraudoux, Francis Raoul, Francis Douay, Dominique Rieffel, Annette de Vaufleury, and Renaud Scheifler; title: Heavy metal contamination of soil and sediment in Zambia / Yoshinori Ikenaka, Shouta M. M. Nakayama, Kaampwe Muzandu, Kennedy Choongo, Hiroki Teraoka, Naoharu Mizuno, and Mayumi Ishizuka; title: Human exposure pathways of heavy metals in a lead-zinc mining area, Jiangsu Province, China / Chang-Sheng Qu, Zong-Wei Ma, Jin Yang, Yang, Liu, Jun Bi, and Lei Huang; title: Analysis and assessment of heavy metal contamination. Integrated assessment of heavy metal contamination in sediments from a coastal industrial basin, n.e. China / Xiaoyu Li, Lijuan Liu, Yugang Wang, Geping Luo, Xi Chen, Xiaoliang Yang, Bin Gao, and Xingyuan He; title: A determination of metallothionein in larvae of freshwater midges (Chironomus riparius) using Brdicka reaction / Ivo Fabrik, Zuzana Ruferova, Klara Hilscherova, Vojtech Adam, Liuse Trnkova, and Rene Kizek; title: Multivariate statistical assessment of heavy metal pollution sources of groundwater around a lead and zinc plant / Abbas Ali Zamani, Mohammad Reza Yaftian, and Abdolhossien Parizanganeh; title: Assessment of heavy metal contamination of agricultural soil around Dhaka export processing zone (DEPZ), Bangladesh : implication of seasonal variation and indices / Syed Hafizur Rahman, Dilara Khanam, Tanveer Mehedi Adyel, Mohammand Shahidul Islam, Mohammad Aminul Ahsan, and Mohammad Ahedul Akbor; title: Remediation of heavy metal contamination. Phytoremediation of heavy metals : a green technology / P. Ahmadpour, F. Ahmadpour, T.M.M. Mahmud, Afrin Abdu, M. Soleimani, and F. Hosseini Tayefeh; title: Assessment of the efficacy of chelate-assisted phytoextraction of lead by coffeeweed (Sesbania exaltata Raf.) / Gloria Miller, Gregorio Begonia, Maria Begonia, Jennifer Ntoni, and Oscar Hundley; title: Sustainable sources of biomass for bioremediation of heavy metals in waste water derived from coal-fired power generation / Richard J. Saunders, Nicholas A. Paul, Yi Hu, and Rocky de Nys; title: Characterization of the metabolically modified heavy metal-resistant Cupriavidus metallidurans strain MSR33 generated for mercury bioremediation / Luis A. Rojas, Carolina Yáñez, Myriam González, Soledad Lobos, Kornelia Smalla, and Michael Seeger; title: A ferritin from Dendrorhynchus zhejiangensis with heavy metals detoxification activity / Chenghua Li, Zhen Li, Ye Li, Jun Zhou, Chundan Zhang, Xiurong Su, and Taiwu Li.