Chemicals as Intentional and Accidental Global Environmental Threats (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security)

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 13
List of Contributors......Page 14
Environmental Risk Assessment......Page 20
Sampling and Sample Pretreatment for Environmental Analysis......Page 26
Lessons Learned from Industrial Chemical Accidents: Italian and International Initiatives......Page 48
Selection of Effective Technologies for Management of Contaminated Lands......Page 64
Europe as a Source of Pollution – The Main Factor for the Eutrophication of the Danube Delta and Black Sea......Page 76
Effective Approaches for Modeling Ground Water Load of Surface Applied Chemicals......Page 83
Fate of Chemicals in the Aquatic Environment......Page 111
Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation: Response Mechanisms in an Environmental Emergency – The Asian Tsunami in Thailand and Hurricane Katrina in the United States......Page 122
One Approach for Cognitive Assessment on Group of School Children Exposed to Lead in the Community of Veles......Page 144
Ecological and Professional Chemical Dangers for Reproductive Health......Page 154
Technological Transfer. Miniature Laser Mass Spectrometer for Express Analysis of Environmental Samples......Page 166
Incidental and Accidental Pollution in Italy......Page 179
Pesticides as Global Environmental Pollutants......Page 188
Regulatory use of Pesticide Concentrations in the Environment in the EU......Page 207
Threats on the Seaside Lakes Water and Their Acute and Long-Term Consequences......Page 215
Evaluating Health Risks and Prioritising Response Actions for Contaminated Lands......Page 233
SAFEFOODNET: An Ongoing Project on Chemical Food Safety: Network for Enlarging Europe......Page 251
Degradation of N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) in Landscape Soils......Page 261
Pollutants Effects on Human body – Toxicological Approach......Page 268
The Use of Models for the Evaluation of Chemical Attenuation in the Environment......Page 280
Mechanism of the remediation (detoxification) of chemicals (pesticide, heavy metals, other toxic chemical compounds)......Page 284
Environmental Protection and Public Health Projects. Educational and Training Programs......Page 294
Planning and Execution of a Pilot Phytoremediation Experiment......Page 310
Determination of protein complexed paralytic shellfish poisoning. Mechanism of the remediation (detoxification) of chemicals (pesticide, heavy metals, other toxic chemical compounds)......Page 316
European Institutions for Controlling Chemical Air Pollution: An Analysis of CLRTAP-European Union Interplay......Page 334
Development of a Pesticides Biosensor Using Carbon-Based Electrode Systems......Page 350
Study of the Content of Chemicals in Landfill Leachate......Page 357
Aspects of Eutrophication as a Chemical Pollution with Implications on Marine Biota at the Romanian Black Sea Shore......Page 369
Investigation of the Constanta Surface Water\'s Pollution Sources......Page 373
The Potential Use of Festuca Cultivars and Lignite for phytostabilization of Heavy Metal Polluted Soils......Page 379
Development of Analytical Method for Determination of PCBs in Soil by Gas Chromatography with Electron-Capture detector......Page 387
Method for the determination of Some Selected Steroid Hormones and Bisphenol A in Water at Low ng/l Level by On-line Solid-Phase Extraction Combined with Liquid…......Page 391
Evaluation of Biocide – Free Antifouling Systems......Page 405
Removal of Dissolved Organic Compounds by Granular Activated Carbon......Page 409
External and Internal Exposure to Carbon Disulfide at the Working Place......Page 413
Accumulation of Copper, Cadmium, Iron, Magnesium and Zink in Three Development Stages of Red Pepper......Page 421
Determination of Organochlorine and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Pesticides in Honey From Different Regions in Romania......Page 424
Evaluation of the Women Fertility Health and the Environment. Nickel Exposure in Industry......Page 427
Study on the Influence of Vegetation on the Quality of Aquatic Systems......Page 431
Heavy Metals Concentrations in Aquatic Environment and Living Organisms in the Danube Delta, Romania......Page 445
Determination of Cyanides from Distilled Alcoholic Drinks......Page 453
The Quality of the Drinking Water – the Main Factor into the Socio-Hygienic Monitoring......Page 456
Detection of Heavy Metals and Organic Pollutants from Black Sea Marine Organisms......Page 460
Methylmercury in Surface Sediments in Coastal Environments. Comparison Between a Dynamic Macrotidal Estuary and a Microtidal Lagoon......Page 464
A Quick and Easy Retrieval of Information on Pesticide Toxicity to Humans and Environment: PESTIDOC......Page 468
Study of Biofilm Formation on Different Pipe Materials in a Model of Drinking Water Distribution System and its Impact on Microbiological Water Quality......Page 472
Modeling the transport and fate of Contaminants in the environment: soil, water and air......Page 478
Equilibrium studies of Pb(II), Zn(II) and Cd(II) ions onto granular activated carbon and natural zeolite......Page 486
Nitrate Pollution of the Lesnovska River Caused by Filtration of Chemicals by Agricultural Areas......Page 496
Pesticide Applications and Sustainable Agricultural Development in Armenia......Page 501
Evaluation of biofilms occuring in drinking water distribution system of Balatonfüred......Page 509
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W......Page 518