Books in the The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry series

This book reviews the globally important freshwater resource of the Great Lakes, which is currently threatened by contaminants that compromise water quality and impact its ecological and economic health.

Sunscreen Components Are a New Environmental Concern in Coastal Waters: An Overview.- Sunscreen Regulation in the World.- Chemical UV filters. Analysis in marine waters.- Fate and Behavior of UV Filters in the Marine Environment.- Bioaccumulation and Toxicological Effects of UV-Filters on Marine Species.- The Mediterranean Sea.- Environmental risk assessment of sunscreens.- Sustainable Sunscreens: A Challenge Between Performance, Animal Testing Ban, and Human and Environmental Safety.

Introduction.- Role of water resources in the modern world.- Evolution of Water Resources Management in Central Asia.- Water resources transfer in Central Asia: Projects, results and perspectives.- Legal aspects of water resources management in Central Asian countries.- Main Problems of Water Resources Use in Central Asia.- Water bodies and water resources of the Kyrgyz Republic and challenges in their transboundary use.- Tajikistan Water Resources and Water Management Issues.- Current Hydropower Potential of Kazakhstan.- The level of anthropogenic pollution of the Kapshagay Water Reservoir, Republic of Kazakhstan.- Current state of water resources and problems of their use in border regions of Russia (the Ob-Irtysh Basin as a case study).- Conclusions.

This book focuses on microplastics as emerging persistent contaminants in terrestrial environments. Offering a comprehensive overview of microplastics in terrestrial environments, the book is a valuable resource for environmental researchers, ecologists and toxicologists, as well as for policymakers and non-experts.

Antibiotic resistance in the environment: expert perspectives.- Antibiotic resistant bacteria in wildlife.- Genomic surveillance for One Health antimicrobial resistance: understanding human, animal, and environmental reservoirs and transmission.- Antibiotic resistance in pharmaceutical industry effluents and effluent-impacted environments.- Antibiotic resistance in municipal wastewater: A special focus on hospital effluents.- Control strategies to combat dissemination of antibiotic resistance in urban water systems.- Antibiotic resistance, sanitation and public health.- Antibiotic resistance and sanitation in India: current situation and future perspectives.- Mitigating antimicrobial resistance risks when using reclaimed municipal wastewater for agriculture.- Antibiotic resistance in soil.- Religious Mass Gathering (Hajj) and Antimicrobial Resistance: From Challenges to Opportunities.- Human movement and transmission of anti-microbial resistant bacteria.

Written by expert contributors, it addresses occurrence, detection and extraction of strontium, the chemical and nuclear properties of strontium isotopes, the fate and migration of strontium in soil, its bioaccumulation, and its associated health impact, mechanistic toxicity response as well as related regulation and remediation.

Current climatic conditions of lake regions in Poland and impact on their functioning.- Polish rivers as hydrographic objects.-Geoecosystems of Polish lakes.- Occurrence, genetic types and evolution of lake basins in Poland.- Soft water lobelia lakes in Poland.- Environmental conditions in Polish lakes with different types of catchments.- Characteristic of bottom sediments of Polish lakes with different trophic status.- Characteristics of the water network in post-glacial areas of northern Poland.- The role of lakes in shaping the runoff of lakeland rivers.- Total organic carbon in water of Polish dam reservoirs.- The Great Masurian Lakes: hydrological regime and summer phytoplankton.- Trophic State, Eutrophication and the Threats for Water Quality of The Great Masurian Lakes System.- Nutrient balance of north-eastern Poland lakes.- The internal phosphorus loading in eutrophic lakes in Western Poland.- The effect of a dam reservoir on water trophic status and forms of river transport of nutrient.- Heated Konin Lakes: structure, functioning and succession.

This book reviews the current state of knowledge on, recent advances in, and future prospects of Montenegrin river basins in the context of anthropogenic activities.

This book reviews the latest developments concerning the analysis, fate, behaviour and toxicity of pyrethroid insecticides.

Comprising 12 chapters, this book focuses on volatile methylsiloxanes (VMSs), the shorter-chained organosiloxanes, and reviews the main areas and environmental compartments where they have been found and studied.

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume focuses on microscopic plastic debris, also referred to as microplastics, which have been detected in aquatic environments around the globe and have accordingly raised serious concerns.

Whetherintentionally manufactured or unintentionally generated during industrial processes,the release of nanoparticles can result in significant worker exposure, whichmust be dealt with adequately by means of dedicated risk assessments to ensureworkplace health and safety.

This volume synthesizes the relevant data that is fundamental to our understanding of trace metal biogeochemistry and the ecology of biological communities of deep-sea vent systems.

This book concisely describes the architecture of the oil and gas pipelines in the Black-Caspian Seas Region and analyzes the status quo and perspectives of oil and gas production in this region.

This book focuses on environmental aspects of Boka Kotorska Bay in Montenegro (South Adriatic Sea), an area that has been shaped by seasonal tourism, and explores the use and limitations of its natural resources.

This volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the water resources in the Souss-Massa river basin in southwestern Morocco and provides novel water-management approaches to narrow the gap between supply and demand for water.

This book highlights various aspects of shale gas production and discusses the associated problems, which have greatly influenced the current situation on the global gas market.

This volume serves as a useful reference for students andresearchers involved in holistic approaches to water management, and as avaluable guide to experts in governmental agencies as well as planners andengineers concerned with sustainable water management systems in urbanenvironments.

This volume focuses on modelling the fate of chemicals in the environment and the human body to arrive at an integrated exposure assessment.

This volume offers up-to-date and comprehensive information on various aspects of the Nile River, which is the main source of water in Egypt.

This volume presents up-to-date research on the Nile Delta and discusses the challenges involved in and opportunities for improving its productivity. The book closes with a review of the latest findings on the Nile Delta and offers conclusions and recommendations for future research to fulfill the requirements for sustainable development.

This volume is a tribute to Professor Otto Hutzinger, the founding editor of The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, in recognition of his pioneering work and contribution to our understanding of the sources, fate, exposure and effects of persistent organic pollutants.

This book details theexperiences gained by the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) in a Mediterraneanwatershed - the Catalan River Basin District - following the launch of the EUWater Framework Directive (WFD) in the year 2000.

This book details theexperiences gained by the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) in a Mediterraneanwatershed - the Catalan River Basin District - following the launch of the EUWater Framework Directive (WFD) in the year 2000.

It describes in detail the physicochemical and microbiological alterations in soil resulting from irrigation with treated urban wastewater, and discusses our current understanding of antibiotic resistance in wastewater treatment plants and in downstream environments.

This volume offers a detailed overview of currently applied and tested wastewater treatment technologies and the integration of advanced processes to remove trace organic contaminants and microorganisms.

This second edition offers a comprehensive overview of the priority indoor air pollutants, such as volatile organic compounds, indoor particles and fibres, combustion products and other chemical agents that may affect health.

This volume discusses the theoretical fundamentals and potential applications of the original electro-Fenton (EF) process and its most innovative and promising versions, all of which are classified as electrochemical advanced oxidation processes.

The authors discuss the concepts of groundwater-resources protection and offer examples of both geogenic and anthropogenic degradation of groundwater quality, such as heavy metals from mining activities and natural water-rock interactions, as well as risk of contamination due to geological CO2 storage practices etc.