Drawn from presentations made during the Croucher Advanced Study Institute workshop held in 2010, Environmental Contamination: Health Risks and Ecological Restoration covers all the fundamentals necessary for contaminated site assessment and remediation. It discusses historical and emerging contaminants, human health, risk assessment and bioremediation. It contains numerous case studies, many of them from the Asia-Pacific region, that look at the effects of rapid industrialization. It also examines both historical and emerging contaminants such as persistent organic pollutants and electronic waste.
Introduction
HEALTH IMPACTS AND RISK ASSESSMENT
- Environmental Pollution and Human Health, Chris K.C. Wong
- Heavy Metal Overloads and Autism in Children from Mainland China and Hong
- Kong: A Preliminary Study, Lillian Y.Y. Ko, Yan Yan Qin, and Ming H. Wong
- Environmental Impacts on Human Health Need for Healthcare Reform? Paul KL Lam and Ming H. Wong
- Assessing Health Risks from Arsenic Intake by Residents in Cambodia, Suthipong Sthiannopkao, Kongkea Phan, Kyoung-Woong Kim and Ming H. Wong
- A Pragmatic Approach for Health Risk Assessment of Bauxite Tailing Waste
- Materials, Jack C. Ng, Jian Ping Wang, Cheng Peng, and Guanyu Guan
BIOAVAILABILITY
- Bioavailability of Metals and Arsenic on Brownfield Land: Remediation or Natural Attenuation for Risk Minimization? Nicholas Dickinson, William Hartley, Amanda Black and Cameron Crook
- Mixed Contamination of Poly aromatic Hydrocarbons and Metals at Manufactured Gas Plant Sites: Toxicity and Implications to Bioremediation,
- Palanisami Thavamani, Mallavarapu /vfegharaj, Kadiyala I 'enkateswarlu and Ravi Naidu
- Toxicity and Bioavailability of Heavy Metals and Hydrocarbons in Mangrove
- Wetlands and Their Remediation, Lin Ke and Nora F Y Tam
BIOREMEDIATION
- Biomethylation to Remediation Arsenic Contaminated Soils, Richard P. Dick, Qin Wu and Nicholas T. Basta
- Handling Copper: A Paradigm for the Mechanisms of Metal Ion Homeostasis, Kathryn A. Gogolin and Afarinus Pilon
- Integrated Biological Treatment of Chromate and Azo Dye, Tsz-Wai Ng, Qinhong Cai and Po-Keung Wong
- Microbial Transformation of Phthalate Esters: Diversity of Hydrolytic Esterases, Ji-Dong Gu and Yuping Wang
PHYTOREMEDIATION
- Origin of Paddy Fields and Functions for Environmental Remediation in Urbanized Yangtze River Delta, Zhihong Cao
- Remediation and Reuse of Storm water by Ecotechnology, Brian Shutes, Michael Revitt, Bryan Ellis and Linda Lundy
- Plant Selenium Metabolism Genetic Manipulation, Phytotechnological
- Applications and Ecological Implication, Elizabeth A.H. Pilon-Smits
- Phytostabilization for Sustainable End-use of Arsenic-rich Mine Tailings in the Victorian Goldfields, Australia, Augustine Doronila, Ron Watkins and Alan J.M. Baker
- Field Application of the Stabilization Process for Arsenic Contaminated Soil, Kyoung Woong Kim and Myoung Soo Ko
EMERGING CHEMICALS AND E-WASTE
- Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in China - Sources, Trends and Their Adverse Impacts on Human Health, Gene J.S. Zheng, Liping Jiao, Anna O.W. Leung, Yeqing Huang, Tingting You and Ming H. Wong - Removal of POPs and Emerging Chemicals of Concern in Publicly Owned Sewage Treatment Works, Ming Man and Ming H. Wong
- Inverse Relationship Between Urinary Retinol-binding Protein, Beta-2-Microglobulin and Blood Manganese Levels in School-age Children from an E-waste Recycling Town, Jingrong Huang, Xijin Xu, Guina Zheng, Kusheng Wu, Yongyong Guo, Junxiao Liu, Hao Ban, Weitang Liao, Wei Liu, Hui Yang, Qiongna Xiao, Yuanping Wang, and Xia Huo
- Mitigating Environmental and Health Risks Associated with Uncontrolled
- Recycling of Electronic-waste - Are International and National Regulations Effective? Ming H. Wong, Anna O.W. Leung, Shengchun Wu, Clement K.M. Leung and Ravi Naidu
- Decision Making Support Tools for Managing Electronic Waste, Peeranart Kiddee, Ravi Naidu and Ming H. Wong