Download or read book Atmospheric Input of Persistent Organic Pollutants to the Mediterranean Sea written by and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2001 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mediterranean Sea written by Alain Saliot and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-08-24 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents a practical survey of current understanding of chemical contamination of the Mediterranean Sea. Beginning with an overview of the general physical and socio-economic context, the author reviews the exploration of processes governing the fate of chemicals, assesses the budget of both inorganic and organic contaminants, and describes new tools for studying the impact of pollution on the Mediterranean.
Download or read book Hazardous Substances in the European Marine Environment written by Norman Green and published by Office for Official Publications of European Communities. This book was released on 2003 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge: 1. Introduction - 2. The seas of Europe - 3. Impact of hazardous substances - 4. Sources and inputs of hazardous substances (driving forces and pressures) - 5. Spatial and temporal coverage of data - 6. Present levels and trents (state) of hazardous substances - 7. Response measures - 8. Future developments - 9. Conclusions
Download or read book Atmospheric Chemistry in the Mediterranean Region written by François Dulac and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set provides an extensive review of the abundant past and recent literature on the atmospheric chemistry in the Mediterranean region. The books document the experience gained on the atmospheric composition over the Mediterranean basin and close areas after six decades of research, starting from early studies of radioactive aerosol fallouts and intense desert dust events in the 1960s, followed by studies of aerosols collected during oceanographic cruises in the early 1980s, and including subsequent knowledge from various surface monitoring stations, intensive campaigns, satellite climatologies, laboratory studies, as well as chemistry-transport and climate models. Through ten thematic sections, the authors examine the sources and fates of atmospheric pollutants over the Mediterranean basin and what we know about the main impacts of the regional atmospheric chemistry. This overview not only considers the full regional cycle of both aerosol and reactive gases including emissions, transport, transformations, and sinks, but also addresses their major impacts on air quality and health, on the radiative budget and climate, on marine chemistry and biogeochemistry . The volumes are an initiative from the ChArMEx project that has federated many studies on those topics in the 2010-2020decade, and update the scientific knowledge by integrating the ChArMEx and non-ChArMEx literature. The books are contributed by a large pool of well-known authors from the respective fields, mainly from France and Greece, but also from six other Mediterranean and eight non-Mediterranean countries. All Chapters have been peer-reviewed by international scientific experts in the corresponding domains. Volume 2 focuses on emissions and their sources, recent progress on chemical processes, aerosol properties, atmospheric deposition, and the impacts of air pollution on human health, regional climate and ecosystems. Recommendations for future research in these fields are finally proposed. The targeted audience is the academic community working on atmospheric chemistry and its impacts, especially teams having a special interest in the Mediterranean region, which includes many countries and institutes worldwide.
Download or read book Oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea written by Katrin Schroeder and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2022-10-16 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea: An Introductory Guide provides a comprehensive but concise introduction to the physical oceanography of one of the most fascinating marginal seas, the Mediterranean Sea. The book is primarily focused on the state-of-the-art understanding of the physical functioning of the Mediterranean Sea, while embracing the fundamentals of associated geological and chemical processes. Written by multiple scientists active over many years in the Mediterranean marine community, the book provides a broad overview on the information needed to get a robust background on the physical oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea for students in oceanography, climate science, marine geology and chemistry or scientists unfamiliar with the region. Provides a comprehensive but concise introduction to the physical oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea Presents the existing links between climate, ocean, biogeochemical cycles and geological evolution at the Mediterranean scale Presents clear examples of the Mediterranean region, as well as comparisons with other regions globally
Download or read book Persistent Organic Pollutants POPs Analytical Techniques Environmental Fate and Biological Effects written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on those organic chemicals that are regulated by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). as well as organic chemical with the attributes of being persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic to ecosystem and human beings, criteria used by the Stockholm Convention for screening POP candidates. Because of the unfavourable properties of POPs, numerous research efforts have been directed toward investigating their input sources, fate, and effects, with the help of continuously improving analytical technologies. The contributors to this book provide an integrated assessment of existing data, which will benefit both the scientific and management communities in planning further research projects and/or pollution control measures. Comprehensive overview of recent advances in analyzing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) Covers input sources, fate and biological effects of POPs Contains essential information for environmental management
Download or read book The Atmospheric Input of Trace Species to the World Ocean written by IMO/FAO/UNESCO/WMO/WHO/IAEA/UN/UNEP Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atmospheric Transport of Contaminants Into the Mediterranean Region written by IMO/FAO/UNESCO/WMO/WHO/IAEA/UN/UNEP Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comprehensive Water Quality and Purification written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 1537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive Water Quality and Purification, Four Volume Set provides a rich source of methods for analyzing water to assure its safety from natural and deliberate contaminants, including those that are added because of carelessness of human endeavors. Human development has great impact on water quality, and new contaminants are emerging every day. The issues of sampling for water analysis, regulatory considerations, and forensics in water quality and purity investigations are covered in detail. Microbial as well as chemical contaminations from inorganic compounds, radionuclides, volatile and semivolatile compounds, disinfectants, herbicides, and pharmaceuticals, including endocrine disruptors, are treated extensively. Researchers must be aware of all sources of contamination and know how to prescribe techniques for removing them from our water supply. Unlike other works published to date that concentrate on issues of water supply, water resource management, hydrology, and water use by industry, this work is more tightly focused on the monitoring and improvement of the quality of existing water supplies and the recovery of wastewater via new and standard separation techniques Using analytical chemistry methods, offers remediation advice on pollutants and contaminants in addition to providing the critical identification perspective The players in the global boom of water purification are numerous and varied. Having worked extensively in academia and industry, the Editor-in-Chief has been careful about constructing a work for a shared audience and cause
Download or read book United Nations Documents Index written by United Nations and published by UN. This book was released on 2007-01-06 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Nations Documents Index provides information on documents and publications issued by United Nations offices worldwide. The information is presented in nine sections covering the areas of documents and publications; official records; sales publications; United Nations maps included in UN documents; United Nations sheet maps; United Nations document series symbols; author index; title index and subject index. The index is a three part set. Publishing Agency: United Nations (UN).
Download or read book Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application X written by Sven-Erik Gryning and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application was held in Valencia, Spain, during late 1993. At this conference, a new record of abstracts was submitted, a new record of scientists participated, and a new record of countries was represented. This clearly indicates society's continuous and growing interest in, as well as importance of, the complexities associated with the modelling of air pollution. The conference addressed the following main subjects: integrated regional modelling, global and long-range transport, new modelling developments, accidental releases, and model assess ment and verification. In addition, two project-oriented workshops were organized as part of the conference. The many contributing authors and scientists taking active part in the discussions following the papers, have made this proceeding a record of the current status in the field of air pollu tion modelling. We want to express our gratitude to their efforts. We also wish to extend our gratitude to the sponsors that made this conference possible. In addition to financial support from NATOjCCMS the conference received contributions from CEAM, the European Asso ciation for the Science of Air Pollution, Danish Center for Air Research, and Ris0 National Laboratory. A special grant was given by NATOjCCMS to facilitate attendance of scientists from Central and Eastern Europe. We also wish to express our gratitude to Rosa Salvador and Pilar Zamora of CEAM, who laboriously organized the conference pre-proceedings, and to Anne N0rregaard and Ulla Riis Christiansen of Ris0 National Laboratory, who seved as conference secretariat.
Download or read book Atmospheric Transport and Deposition of Pollutants Into the Mediterranean Sea written by World Meteorological Organization and published by Incumbent. This book was released on 2001 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reference Handbook on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in the Mediterranean Region written by United Nations Environment Programme. Mediterranean Action Plan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this handbook is to raise the level of performance of the environmental inspectors and support the guidelines established under the LBS Protocol by providing details on assessing, developing, implementing and sustaining a viable inspection program.
Download or read book Global Environment Outlook 3 written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating environment and development:1972-2002; State of the environment and policy retrospective: 1972-2002; Human vulnerability to environmental change; Outlook: 2002-32; Options for action.
Download or read book Biogeochemical controls of the transport and cycling of persistent organic pollutants in the polar oceans written by Cristóbal Galbán Malagón and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity is currently using more than 200000 synthetic organic compounds in many industrial, agricultural and domestic applications. Many of these chemicals reach the environment and have a harmful effect on ecosystems and humans. Among them, the group of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) comprises several families of compounds that have physical and chemical properties that give them the ability to be distributed and impact globally (semivolatility, high persistence and bioaccumulation capacity due to their hydrophobicity). In the present thesis, the coupling of atmospheric transport and biogeochemical cycles in the Arctic and Southern Ocean has been studied for Hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs), Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) and Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs). Three oceanographic cruises were conducted, one in the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean (2007) and two in the Southern Ocean surrounding the Antarctic Peninsula (2008 and 2009). During these campaigns, air (gas and particulate), water (dissolved and particulate) and biota (phytoplankton) were sampled simultaneously allowing to report a complete picture of POPs cycling in polar areas. In the case of the Southern Ocean, the largest data set available for PCBs, HCH and HCB has been generated. The atmospheric and seawater concentrations were low, among the lowest reported for the Polar Oceans, and in the case of the Southern Ocean there is a clear historical trend of decreasing concentrations, consistent with reduced emissions in source regions. Long range atmospheric transport was identified as the main POPs input to polar ecosystems agreeing with previous works. However, it has been found that secondary local sources from soil and snow influences strongly the atmospheric concentrations overland in the Antarctic region, and over the adjacent Southern ocean in the case of HCHs. Atmospheric residence times calculated from the measurements were in agreement with the prediction from environmental fate models. The atmospheric residence times were longer for the less hydrophobic PCBs and shorter for the more hydrophobic, consistent with the role of the biological pump sequestering atmospheric PCBs. Once POPs reach the Polar regions the main route of entry of these compounds to surface waters is by atmospheric deposition, mainly by diffusive exchange between the gas and dissolved phase with minor contributions from dry deposition of aerosol bound POPs. Estimated bioconcentration factors revealed that concentration of POPs in phytoplankton were correlated with the chemical hydrophobicity, but some discrepancies with model predictions were observed. The biological and degradative pumps are identified as the two main processes that control the fate and occurrence of POPs in the surface water column, and also are able to modulate the atmospheric transport of POPs to remote areas. POPs such HCHs are prone to be efficiently degraded by bacterial communities in surface waters, depleting the seawater concentrations and increasing the diffusive air-water exchange to the Arctic and Southern Ocean. Conversely, the biological pump decreases the dissolved phase concentrations of the more hydrophobic PCB congeners increasing the air to water fugacity gradients and enhancing the diffusive air-water exchange fluxes. This is the first time that the influence of the biological pump on POP cycling is demonstrated for Oceanic waters. Finally, HCB was close to air-water equilibrium showing that neither the biological and degradative pumps are efficient sequestration processes for the highly persistent and mid-hydrophobic compounds. Overall, the results show clearly that biogeochemical processes occurring in the water column affect the atmospheric deposition and long range transport of POPs to remote regions.The magnitude of these processes may show a clear seasonality and are suitable to be perturbed under the current scenario of climate change.
Download or read book Microplastics in the Mediterranean Sea written by Monique Mancuso and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides for the first time an overview of the latest scientific studies conducted on micro and nano plastic pollution in the Mediterranean Sea both from the biological and environmental point of view as well as from the chemical point of view in order to have a more real idea of the current situation.
Download or read book Persistent Organic Pollutants in Asia written by An Li and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large amounts of data obtained through environmental monitoring of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in 10 Asian countries and Australia have been compiled and explored using principles of environmental chemistry, toxicology, and risk assessment. This book also includes descriptions and discussions of current governmental policies, monitoring and surveillance programs, history of manufacturing and applications, emission sources, impacts on human health, and cross-boundary transport of POPs in these countries. * Compiles up-to-date sources, distributions, transport, and fates of highly concerned persistent organic pollutants (POPs) * Presents exploratory examinations of the data guided by the principles of environmental chemistry, toxicology, and risk assessment * Includes important context and insight regarding government policies, monitoring and surveillance programs, history of manufacturing and applications, emission sources, impact on human health, and cross-boundary transport of POPs
