Fourth Symposium on our Environment: Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Our Environment, held in Singapore, May 21–23, 1990

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Chromatographic Techniques for Pollution Analyses....Pages 1-11
Separation of Large Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons In Particulate Matter By Liquid Chromatography....Pages 13-25
The Effect of Oxygen Addition on the Determination of Cadmium and Lead in Blood and Foods by Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometry....Pages 27-33
An Optimization Procedure for the Isocratic High-performance Liquid Chromatographic Separations of Environmental Pollutants....Pages 35-46
Some Applications of Freon-22 In Supercritical Fluid Chromatographic Analysis of Environmental Pollutants....Pages 47-53
Identification of Residual Pesticides In Water By GC/QPMS....Pages 55-62
Direct Coupling of Supercritical Fluid Extractionsupercritical Fluid Chromatography For The Determination of Selected Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons In Aqueous Environmental Samples....Pages 63-71
Separation of Selected PAHs By Using High Performance Capillary Electrophoresis With Modifiers....Pages 73-81
Optimization of The Gradient HPLC Separation of Selected Phthalates Using The Overlapping Resolution Mapping Technique....Pages 83-91
Analysis of Priority Substituted Phenols by Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography....Pages 93-103
Incineration of Hazardous Wastes....Pages 105-125
Environmental Management in Singapore....Pages 127-130
Catalytic CO Oxidation Over Manganese-Containing Perovskites....Pages 131-138
Water Purification With Magnetic Particles....Pages 139-143
Entrapping of Organic Wastes By Coordination Clathrates....Pages 145-150
In Search of a Recyclable Sulphur Dioxide Sponge - A New Look at an Old System....Pages 151-155
Leachate of Fly Ash Derived from Refuse Incineration....Pages 157-164
Mercury Contamination - What We Have Learned Since Minamata....Pages 165-182
The Legal Control of Chlorofluorocarbon and Halon Substances in Hong Kong....Pages 183-191
The Effectiveness of Composite Lining Systems in Controlling the Leakage of Leachate from Sanitary Landfills to Groundwater....Pages 193-202
Factors Affecting the Leaching of Lead from UPVC Pipes....Pages 203-213
Poly(Sodium Acrylamidoalkanoates) in Water Treatment....Pages 215-224
Atmospheric Acidification in the Asian Region....Pages 225-250
Improving the Living Environment of Singapore....Pages 251-259
The New Environmentalist....Pages 261-273
Proposals for the Conservation of Nature in Urban Singapore....Pages 275-286
Microplankton Bloom in a Brackish Water Lagoon of Terengganu....Pages 287-294
Temporal Variation in a Coral Reef Community at Pattaya Bay, Gulf of Thailand....Pages 295-307
Water Quality Planning and Management for Dapeng Bay, China....Pages 309-317
Ecology of Marine Fouling Organisms at Eastern Johore Strait....Pages 319-333
DNA Adducts as Early Bioindicators of Chemical Exposure....Pages 335-340
Some Gaseous Pollutants in Nakorn Sri Thammarat....Pages 341-347
Management and Control of Pollution in Inner Johore Strait....Pages 349-359
A Feasibility Study for Appraising Recreational Water Quality in a Southeast Asian Beach Complex....Pages 361-372
Diurnal Models of Traffic-Generated Co for Penang, Malaysia....Pages 373-382
Non-Radiological Contaminants from Uranium Mining and Milling at Ranger, Jabiru, Northern Territory, Australia....Pages 383-400
Environmental and Biological Monitoring of Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK)....Pages 401-411
The Determination of Chlorofluorocarbons and Extractives in the Expanded and Disposable Polystyrene Ware....Pages 413-422
Phenolic Water Pollutants in a Malaysian River Basin....Pages 423-431
Lake Destratification and Speciation of Iron and Manganese....Pages 433-447
Quality of Stormwater Runoff from an Urbanised Watershed....Pages 449-456
The Distribution of Organic Matter in Songkhla Lake Basin (SLB)....Pages 457-467
Analysis of Pesticide Residues in Peninsular Malaysian Waterways....Pages 469-479
A Study of the Heavy Metal Concentrations of the Singapore River....Pages 481-494
Wind Flow in an Urban Environment....Pages 495-506
Uptake, Distribution and Immunotoxicological Effects of Mercury in Mice....Pages 507-517
Noise Surveys of Hand-Held Pneumatic Rock Drills in Hong Kong....Pages 519-523
Major Factors of Industrial Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Hong Kong....Pages 525-537
Analysis of Pollution Monitoring by Expert Systems....Pages 539-547