Book Abstract
Heavy Metals in the Environment: Contamination, Risk, and Remediation presents a comprehensive examination of heavy metal pollution?from industrial emissions and mining legacy sites to emerging nanoparticle contaminants?and offers scientific and practical insights into assessment, health risks, and modern remediation strategies.
Heavy Metals in the Environment: Contamination, Risk, and Remediation offers a complete, interdisciplinary perspective?from environmental chemistry and public health to cutting-edge cleanup solutions. It is an indispensable resource for environmental engineers, earth scientists, toxicologists, regulators, and public health experts aiming to understand and counteract heavy metal pollution on local and global scales.
This volume examines major heavy metals?lead, cadmium, chromium, zinc, copper, nickel, iron, mercury, molybdenum, silver, and rare earth elements?detailing their pathways into ecosystems via industrial, agricultural, mining, and urban sources. It explores how these elements accumulate in water, sediment, soil, and organisms, causing ecological disruption and chronic health issues?including neurotoxicity, organ damage, and developmental disorders .
