Simone Pascucci (2011) - Soil Contamination

Title : Soil Contamination
Editor : Simone Pascucci
Publisher: InTech (September 12, 2011)
Pages : 180 pages
Language : English
ISBN : 978-953-307-647-8


Book Description :
Soil contamination has severely increased over the last decades, mainly due to petroleum hydrocarbons, solvents, pesticides, lead and other heavy metals from industrial wastes and human activities. The critical point regarding contaminated soil monitoring is the intrinsic difficulty in defining fixed monitoring variables and indicators as the establishment of any a priori criterion and threshold for soil quality can be still considered subjective. This book is organized into eight chapters and presents the state-of-the art and new research highlights in the context of contaminated soil monitoring and remediation strategies, including examples from South America, Europe and Asia. The chapters deal with the following topics: - monitoring of dioxin, furan, hydrocarbons and heavy metals level in soils - bioindicators and biomarkers for the assessment of soil toxicity - use of reflectance spectroscopy for soil contaminants and waste material detection - remediation technologies and strategies.



Content :

• Chapter 1
  Long-Term Monitoring of Dioxin and Furan Level in Soil Around Medical Waste Incinerator
  by Li Xiao-dong, Yan Mi, Chen Tong, Lu Sheng-yong and Yan Jian-hua
• Chapter 2 
  Research for Investigating and Managing Soil Contamination Caused
  by Winter Maintenance in Cold Regionsby Helen K. French and Sjoerd E.A.T.M. van der Zee
• Chapter 3 
  Soil-Transmitted Helminthic Zoonoses in Humans and Associated Risk Factors
  by Vamilton Alvares Santarém, Guita Rubinsky-Elefant and Marcelo Urbano Ferreira
• Chapter 4 
  Reflectance Spectroscopy as a Tool for Monitoring Contaminated Soils
  by Guy Schwartz, Gil Eshel and Eyal Ben-Dor
• Chapter 5 
  Multi-Technique Application for Waste Material Detection and Soil Remediation Strategies: The Red Mud Dust and Fly Ash Case Studies
  by Claudia Belviso, Simone Pascucci, Francesco Cavalcante, Angelo Palombo, Stefano Pignatti, Tiziana Simoniello and Saverio Fiore
• Chapter 6 
  Heavy Metals Contaminated Soils and Phytoremediation Strategies in Taiwan
  by Hung-Yu Lai, Shaw-Wei Su, Horng-Yuh Guo and Zueng-Sang Chen
• Chapter 7 
  Biological Remediation of Hydrocarbon and Heavy Metals Contaminated Soil
  by O. Peter Abioye
• Chapter 8 
  Bioindicators and Biomarkers in the Assessment of Soil Toxicity
  by Carmem Silvia Fontanetti, Larissa Rosa Nogarol, Raphael Bastão de Souza, Danielli Giuliano Perez and Guilherme Thiago Maziviero

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