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Hazardous Wastes, Industrial Disasters, and Environmental Health Risks
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 95.00The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline with an increasing volume of empirical research by scholars. Francis O. Adeola focuses this book on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial toxic disasters, contamination of communities and the environment, and the subsequent adverse health effects among exposed... more...
Methods and Techniques for Cleaning-up Contaminated Sites
Springer 2008; US$ 219.00Soil and groundwater pollution caused by contaminants including petroleum hydrocarbons, represents a serious threat to the environment in NATO and NATO Partner countries. Solutions are needed that represent practical alternatives to costly remedial strategies yet still yield benefits to site managers. This publication comprises the presentations made... more...
International Trade in Hazardous Wastes
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 220.00This book discusses the need for a regulated and informed forum for international trade in hazardous waste. The authors argue that with careful planning, health and ecological risks can be minimized and net economic benefits realized fairly. The book examines the key parameters that should be considered by potential trading nations to ensure an optimally... more...
Thermal Plasmas for Hazardous Waste Treatment
World Scientific Publishing Company 1996; US$ 49.00Technologies for hazardous waste destruction (including nuclear, hospital and chemical waste) based on thermal plasma processes: state of the art and perspectives. Economic and environmental aspects. Overview of plasma generating devices, diagnostics and modelling. Evaluations of co-products generations, heat and metal recovery, slag vitrification... more...
Application of Adsorbents for Water Pollution Control
Bentham Science Publishers 2013; US$ 129.00Basic Hazardous Waste Management
CRC Press 2001; US$ 149.95A review of basic hazardous waste management. It addresses fundamental issues such as human health hazards; the environmental impacts of toxic, reactive and ignitable materials; the mobility, pathways and fates of released hazardous materials; and more. more...
Hazardous Materials and Waste Management
Elsevier Science 1995; US$ 132.00The management of hazardous materials and industrial wastes is complex, requiring a high degree of knowledge over very broad technical and legal subject areas. Hazardous wastes and materials are diverse, with compositions and properties that not only vary significantly between industries, but within industries, and indeed within the complexity of single... more...
ESAs Made Easy
Government Institutes 1996; US$ 79.99Learn how to conduct and evaluate a successful Phase I ESA to identify existing or potential environmental hazards and 'special resources' for a subject property. Through its easy-to-follow checklist format and sample ESA, this book shows you everything you need to know about Phase I ESAs, including ESA statement of work, environmental databases, ESA... more...
Waste Immobilization in Glass and Ceramic Based Hosts
Wiley 2010; US$ 180.00The safe storage in glass-based materials of both radioactive and non-radioactive hazardous wastes is covered in a single book, making it unique Provides a comprehensive and timely reference source at this critical time in waste management, including an extensive and up-to-date bibliography in all areas outlined to waste conversion and related technologies,... more...
Polychlorinated Biphenyls: Human Health Aspects
World Health Organization 2003; US$ 21.00This book evaluates the effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) on human health. PCBs are synthetic chlorinated hydrocarbon compounds that have been produced and used in plasticizers surface coatings inks dielectric fluids and so on. Since PCBs accumulate in the food-chain and persist in the environment they are designated by the Stockholm Convention... more...









