Environmental Contamination

Nature minimizes the hazards, while man maximizes them. This is not an assumption, but a basic idea of the findings of scientists from all over the world. The last two centuries have witnessed the indiscriminate development and overexploitation of natural resources by man causing alterations and impairment of our own environment. Environmental contamination is the result of the irrational use of resources at the wrong place and at the wrong time. Environmental contamination has changed the lifestyle of people virtually all over the world, and has reduced the extent of life on earth. Today, we are bound to compromises with such environmental conditions, which was not anticipated for the sustenance of humanity and other life forms. Let us find out the problem and its management within this book.

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• Chapter 1  Response of C3 and C4 Plant Systems Exposed to Heavy Metals for Phytoextraction at Elevated Atmospheric CO2 and at Elevated Temperatureby Jatin Srivastava, Harish Chandra, Anant R. Nautiyal and Swinder J. S. Kalra
• Chapter 2  Manganese: A New Emerging Contaminant in the Environmentby Annalisa Pinsino, Valeria Matranga and Maria Carmela Roccheri
• Chapter 3  Plants and Soil Contamination with Heavy Metals in Agricultural Areas of Guadalupe, Zacatecas, Mexicoby Osiel González Dávila, Juan Miguel Gómez-Bernal and Esther Aurora Ruíz-Huerta
• Chapter 4  Sustainable Environment – Monitoring of Radionuclide and Heavy Metal Accumulation in Sediments, Algae and Biota in Black Sea Marine Ecosystemsby Alexander Strezov
• Chapter 5  Environmental Contaminations and Occupational Exposures Involved in Preparation of Chemotherapeutic Drugsby Shinichiro Maeda, Masako Oishi, Yoshihiro Miwa and Nobuo Kurokawa
• Chapter 6  Production of Persistent Organic Pollutants from Cement Plantsby Flávio Aparecido Rodrigues
• Chapter 7  It’s All in the Genes: How Genotype Can Impact Upon Response to Contaminant Exposure and the Implications for Biomonitoring in Aquatic Systemsby Pann Pann Chung, Ross V. Hyne and J. William O. Ballard
• Chapter 8  Bioindicator of Genotoxicity: The Allium cepa Testby Solange Bosio Tedesco and Haywood Dail Laughinghouse IV
• Chapter 9  Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis: A picture in Portugalby André Silva Almeida, Sónia Cristina Soares, Maria Lurdes Delgado, Elisabete Magalhães Silva, António Oliveira Castro and José Manuel Correia da Costa
• Chapter 10  Risk Assessment and Management of Terrestrial Ecosystems Exposed to Petroleum Contaminationby M. S. Kuyukina, I. B. Ivshina, S. O. Makarov and J. C. Philp
• Chapter 11  Recycling of Mine Wastes as Ceramic Raw Materials: An Alternative to Avoid Environmental Contaminationby Romualdo Rodrigues Menezes, Lisiane Navarro L. Santana, Gelmires Araújo Neves and Heber Carlos Ferreira