Soil Chemical Pollution, Risk Assessment, Remediation and Security

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Detoxification of Soils, Polluted Jointly by Heavy Metals, Acid Wastes and Acid Precipitations....Pages 1-12
Contamination of Soils by Waste Deposits....Pages 13-25
Health-ecological Investigation of Soil Pollution with Heavy Metals and Arsenic in a Metallurgical and ore output region....Pages 27-32
Quantitative Health Risk Assessment of Hydrocarbon Contamination at Former Inner Town Bus Depot (Case Study)....Pages 33-57
Extraction with EDTA to Assess the Global Risk Presented by Heavy Metals (Cd, Ni, Pb) in Soils and Sediments....Pages 59-71
The Impact of Soil Pollutants on Soil Microbial Activity....Pages 73-93
Assessment of Inorganic Priority Pollutants in Contaminated Soils: Harmonization of Analytical Protocols For Heavy Metal Extraction: Analytical Speciation....Pages 95-116
PCBs Content in Topsoils Around the Metallurgical Plant Kremikovtsi....Pages 117-128
New Bulgarian Soil Pollution Standards....Pages 129-138
Studies About Remediation of Contaminated Soils with Toxic Metals....Pages 139-149
Assessment of the POPs Issues in the Republic of Moldova....Pages 151-159
The Problem of Soil Pollution in Russia and Associated Health Problems....Pages 161-170
Present State, Risk Assessment and Treatment Options for the Conversion of Liquid Ballistic Missile Propellants in Azerbaijan Republic....Pages 171-175
Using Lepidium as a Test of Phytotoxicity from Lead/Zinc Spoils and Soil Conditioners....Pages 177-182
Hydrogeophysical Techniques for Site Characterization and Monitoring: Recent Advances in Ground-penetrating Radar....Pages 183-202
Geochemical Assessment of Reclaimed Lands in the Mining Regions of Ukraine....Pages 203-208
Urban Soils Pollution in Belarus: Priority Pollutants and Levels....Pages 209-215
Identification of Pollutants in Soils around the Obsolete Pesticides Stocks in Ukraine....Pages 217-222
Design of New “Ionic Liquids” for Liquid/Liquid Extraction of Persistent Toxic Substances....Pages 223-228
Land and Soil Resources in Armenia: State of the Art and Policy Measures....Pages 229-239
Sorption-desorption Tests to Characterize Soils Contaminated by Heavy Metals: Implications for Risk Assessment....Pages 241-252
Soil-plant Transfer of Organic Chemicals and Derivation of Trigger Values....Pages 253-262
A Single Chemical Extraction Scheme for the Simultaneous Evaluation of the Potential Mobility of a Metalloid (As) and Metallic Elements (Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn) in Contaminated Soils and Mine Wastes....Pages 263-280
Numerical Models for Prediction of Flow and Transport in Soil at the Field Scale....Pages 281-291
Diminishing of Human Exposure from Active Lead and Zinc Mining Dumps....Pages 293-299
Soil Remediation Scenarios for Heavy Metal Contaminated Soil....Pages 301-307
Degradation of Soil in Kazakhstan: Problems and Challenges....Pages 309-320
Ecology Screening and Mapping of Heavy Metal Pollution of Soils by Laser Mass Spectrometry....Pages 321-326
Analytical Techniques and Bioindicators in Environmental Control: Honeybees, Mussels, Bioluminescent Bacteria: Rapid Immunoassays for Pesticide Detection....Pages 327-347
Accumulation and Transformation Processes of Pollutants in Soil....Pages 349-357
Laser Mass Analyser in the Configuration of a Multi-purpose Transportable Mass Spectrometric System for Express Environmental Analysis: Applicability and Analytical Limitations....Pages 359-368
Bioremediation of Contaminated Soils by Hydrocarbons Degrading Bacteria and Decontamination Control....Pages 369-383
Application of Capillary Electrophoresis for Soil Monitoring....Pages 385-393
Back Matter....Pages 395-397