Fully revised to reflect new developments, the new edition of this renowned text details key environmental contaminants, explores their fate and cycling in the biosphere, and discusses bioaccumulation and the effects of contaminants at increasing levels of ecological organization. It also covers regulatory aspects of the field and discusses key U.S., European, and Chinese legislation and policy. It provides new study questions, a detailed glossary, and new international case studies by leading world-known experts.
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Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Natural Hazards & Risk
Chemical Engineering
Textbook
Undergraduate

A unique presentation that unifies the field, this book brings together concepts and information about contaminant effects at all levels of the biological hierarchy. Beginning at the biomolecular level, this book builds progressively toward a discussion of effects to the global biosphere. Emphasizing ecological components and fundamental paradigms, the authors strike a balance between the presentation of details relevant at each level and the integration of phenomena and processes among levels. A milestone in the field, the book is suitable for graduate courses, as well as a reference for professionals in the field.
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Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Natural Hazards & Risk
Reference
Professional

This volume is the first comprehensive treatment of time to event methodology as it relates to ecological risk assessment. Leading Experts from industry, academia, and government regulatory agencies explain how these methods can be used to extract more useful information from laboratory data than can be gained from the use of simple summary statistics. The book offers a clear introduction to the field through several approaches, from the introductory to the more mathematical. It demonstrates the relevance of time in the analysis and reporting of toxicity data by providing practical examples from the field of environmental toxicology. It also incorporates helpful analogies from other disciplines that more commonly use time to event modeling.
• Environmental and Ecological Risk Assessment
Natural Hazards & Risk
Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Statistics
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Professional

Accurate risk assessments are vital to the protection of human, environmental, and ecosystem health. Risk Assessment provides a current, comprehensive reference for researchers and professionals concerned with environmental contamination as well as its effects on humans and ecosystems.
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Natural Hazards & Risk
Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Reference
Professional

This book is a stimulating progressive treatment of ecotoxicology at all levels of biological organization. Twenty internationally recognized experts identify and present the fundamental concepts of ecotoxicology, draw mechanistic interpretations from the next lower biological level, and attempt to predict effects at the next higher level. This innovative approach underscores ecotoxicology's potential for development into a new discipline and makes Ecotoxicology: A Hierarchical Treatment the definitive reference at this crucial juncture.
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Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Reference
Professional

• Advances in Trace Substances Research
Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Marine & Aquatic Science
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Professional

• Advances in Trace Substances Research
Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Natural Hazards & Risk
Surface Water
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Professional