Table of Contents
Preface
The Editor
Chapter 1. Impact of Environmental Pollution
Yuanzhi Zhang and Yufei Wang
Chapter 2. Environmental Aspects and Impacts of Construction Industry
Nik Norulaini Nik Ab Rahman, Fatehah Mohd Omar and Mohd Omar Ab Kadir
Chapter 3. Radiation in the Environment: Sources, Impacts and Uses
Amidu O. Mustapha
Chapter 4. Freshwater Cyanobacterial (Blue-Green Algae) Blooms: Causes, Consequences and Control 73
NK Sharma, KK Choudhary, Rakhi Bajpai and AK Rai
Chapter 5. Avian Immunotoxicology: Current Trends and Future Directions 97
Michael J. Quinn, Jr.
Chapter 6. Unplanned Urbanization and Associated Risk on Human Exposure and Sustainable Development: A Case Study 115
Md. Jahir Bin Alam
Chapter 7. Toxic Effects of Lead and Cadmium as Industrial Pollutants on the Chromosome Structure in Model Mammalian Species 133
M. Topashka-Ancheva and S. E. Teodorova
Chapter 8. Marine Pollution in Water, Sediment and Biota
Qing Xu, Hongyan Xi and Yuanzhi Zhang
Chapter 9. Heavy Metal Pollution in Aquatic Environments
Ayse Bahar Yilmaz
Chapter 10. Heavy Metal Contaminations in Mediterranean Sediments
Amany El-Sikaily, Azza Khaled and Ahmed El Nemr
Chapter 11. Cadmium and Organotin Pollution in an Estuarine Environment from Argentina: An Overview
S. Botté , F. Delucchi , R.H. Freije , and J.E. Marcovecchio
Chapter 12. Antimony in Urban Roadside Surface Soils: Concentration, Source and Mode of Occurrence
Xue Song Wang
Chapter 13. Organochlorine Pesticides, Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Fresh Water Fish Species
Özlem Turgay
Chapter 14. Atmospheric Pollution by Airborne Particle Dynamics in the Brussels Urban Environment
Z.Y. Offer, D. Carati, L.Brenig, P.Vanderstraeten, Y. Lénelle, and A. Meurrens
Chapter 15. A Cadmium Standard Regression Line: A Possible New Index for Biological Monitoring
Mariko Mochizuki, Makoto Mori, Ryo Hondo, and Fukiko Ueda
Chapter 16. Ecological Monitoring of Coastal Marine Environment at Kalpakkam, Southeast Coast of India
K.K. Satpathy , A.K. Mohanty, Gouri Sahu1, M.V.R. Prasad, S. K. Sarkar, S. Biswas and M. Selvanayagam
Chapter 17. The Use of Biomarkers in Bivalve Molluscs for the Evaluation of Marine Environment Pollution
Juan Fernández-Tajes, Blanca Laffon and Josefina Méndez
Chapter 18. Biomarkers Overview and Environmental Applications
Vincent Leignel and Justine Marchand
Chapter 19. Bioaccumulation of Some Heavy Metals in Freshwater Crayfish
Utku Güner
Chapter 20. Bioaccumulation of Heavy Metal by Microbes
Nermeen A. El-Sersy, Gehan A. Abou-Elela and Hanan M. Abd- Elnaby
Chapter 21. The Aromatic Hydrocarbon Receptor Mediated Cytochrome P450 1a Induction in Aquatic Animals: Biomonitoring of Organic Pollution in an Aquatic Environment
S. Arun
Chapter 22. Heuristics Approach: Towards Sustainable Control of Environmental Pollution
Nik Norulaini Nik Ab Rahman, Anees Ahmad, Fatehah Mohd Omar, and Mohd Omar Ab Kadir
Chapter 23. Application of Bioreactor Landfill Technology to Municipal Solid Waste Management: Asian Perspective
Chart Chiemchaisri, Ruwini Weerasekara, Kurian Joseph, Sunil Kumar and Chettiyappan Visvanathan
Chapter 24. A New Theoretical Basis for Description of Living Matter
Svetla E. Teodorova
Chapter 25. Modelling Local and Regional Boundary Conditions of the Geographical Distribution of Mosses and their Metal Loads in Germany
Roland Pesch and Winfried Schröder
Index
