Environmental Modeling and Health Risk Analysis (Acts/Risk)

• Main Author: Aral, Mustafa M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Civil engineering.; Environmental Medicine.; Environmental pollution.; Environment.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.; Civil Engineering.; Environmental Health.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8608-2

This book is intended to serve as a comprehensive source for the advancements and contributions made in environmental transformation and transport modeling in general and the associated health risk assessment topics in particular. The selection of the title, Environmental Modeling and Health Risk A...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Principles of Environmental Modeling
• 3. Conservation Principles, and Environmental Transformation and Transport
• 4. Air Pathway Analysis
• 5. Groundwater Pathway Analysis
• 6. Surface Water Pathway Analysis
• 7. Uncertainty and Variability Analysis
• 8. Health Risk Analysis
• 9. Application: Pesticide Transport in Shallow Groundwater and Environmental Risk Assessment
• APPENDIX A. Definitions of Acronyms and Abbreviations
• APPENDIX B. Environmental Modeling and Exposure Analysis Terms
• APPENDIX C. Definitions and Operations of the ACTS/RISK Software
• APPENDIX D. MCL levels of contaminants
• APPENDIX E. Conversion tables and Properties of Water.