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Ecosystems And Human Health:Toxicology And Environmental Hazards, Richard Philp Mar 2013

Ecosystems And Human Health:Toxicology And Environmental Hazards, Richard Philp

Richard B. Philp

This is a teaching text covering the toxicology of pollutants such as heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants, pesticides, as well as of animal and plant venoms and toxins. Environmental disasters are discussed and updated. There numerous case studies and each chapter has a self-evaluation quizz. See also www.amazon.com/Ecosystems-Human-Health-Toxicology-Environmental/dp/146656721


Improving The Value Of Standard Toxicity Test Data In Reach, Magnus Breitholtz, Elin Lundström, Ulrika Dahl, Valery E. Forbes Mar 2012

Improving The Value Of Standard Toxicity Test Data In Reach, Magnus Breitholtz, Elin Lundström, Ulrika Dahl, Valery E. Forbes

Valery E Forbes

Worldwide, environmental risk assessment strategies are based on the assumption that measuring direct effects of single substances, using a few single species tests, in combination with safety factors correcting for extrapolation inconsistencies, can be used to protect higher levels of biological organization, such as populations and even ecosystems. At the same time, we are currently facing a range of pollution problems (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Series 2005), of which some could at least indirectly be linked to the fact that this assumption may not be fully valid. Consequently, there is an ongoing scientific debate on whether current chemical control protocols are …


Environmental Issues For The Twenty-First Century And Their Impact On Human Health, Richard Philp Feb 2012

Environmental Issues For The Twenty-First Century And Their Impact On Human Health, Richard Philp

Richard B. Philp

This e-book documents environmental hazards from disasters such as the Gulf oil spill, from pollution resulting from resource exploitation, from contamination of the marine environment and from climate change including the role of human source greenhouse gases. Pollution from the electronic industry is a recent and serious threat to human and environmental health. The final chapter offers some means of preventing or reversing these hazards. Now available on Amazon


Children In Jeopardy: Anthropogenic Toxins And Childhood Exposure, Russell Butkus, Steve Kolmes Dec 2009

Children In Jeopardy: Anthropogenic Toxins And Childhood Exposure, Russell Butkus, Steve Kolmes

Steve Kolmes

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