Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Tylers Beach Maintenance Dredging, James River
Author: Chesapeake Bay Environmental Data Directory
Author: Dan JacobsEcology of Estuaries
Author: Michael J. KennishPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000714810
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
Ecology of Estuaries represents the most definitive and comprehensive source of reference information available on the human impact on estuarine ecosystems. The volume discusses both acute and insidious pollution problems plaguing these coastal ecotones. It also provides a detailed examination of the deleterious and pervasive effects of human activities on biotic communities and sensitive habitat areas in estuaries. Specific areas covered include organic loading, oil pollution, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated hydrocarbons, heavy metals, dredging and dredged-spoil disposal, radionuclides, as well as other contaminants and processes. The diverse components of these anthropogenic influences are assembled in an organized framework and presented in a clear and concise style that facilitates their understanding.
Pesticides Monitoring Journal
Author: Nominations of Robert James Huggett, William A. Nitze, Kay Collett Goss, Terrence L. Bracy, Billy J. Anotubby, David Matt James, and Norma G. Udall
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Contaminated Marine Sediments
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309040957
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The pervasive, widespread problem of contaminated marine sediments is an environmental issue of national importance, arising from decades of intentionally and unintentionally using coastal waters for waste disposal. This book examines the extent and significance of the problem, reviews clean-up and remediation technologies, assesses alternative management strategies, identifies research and development needs, and presents the committee's major findings and recommendations. Five case studies examine different ways in which a variety of sediment contamination problems are being handled.
Ecotoxicology: Problems and Approaches
Author: Simon A. LevinPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461235200
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Ecotoxicology is the science that seeks to predict the impacts of chemi cals upon ecosystems. This involves describing and predicting ecological changes ensuing from a variety of human activities that involve release of xenobiotic and other chemicals to the environment. A fundamental principle of ecotoxicology is embodied in the notion of change. Ecosystems themselves are constantly changing due to natural processes, and it is a challenge to distinguish the effects of anthropogenic activities against this background of fluctuations in the natural world. With the frustratingly large, diverse, and ever-emerging sphere of envi ronmental problems that ecotoxicology must address, the approaches to individual problems also must vary. In part, as a consequence, there is no established protocol for application of the science to environmental prob lem-solving. The conceptual and methodological bases for ecotoxicology are, how ever, in their infancy, and thus still growing with new experiences. In deed, the only robust generalization for research on different ecosystems and different chemical stresses seems to be a recognition of the necessity of an ecosystem perspective as focus for assessment. This ecosystem basis for ecotoxicology was the major theme of a previous pUblication by the Ecosystems Research Center at Cornell University, a special issue of Environmental Management (Levin et al. 1984). With that effort, we also recognized an additional necessity: there should be a continued develop ment of methods and expanded recognition of issues for ecotoxicology and for the associated endeavor of environmental management.
NUREG/CR.
Author: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Committee on Tidal Hydraulics Report
Author: To Establish a Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation Law
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental PollutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Compensation (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description