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Contaminated Urban Soils
Helmut Meuser
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Description for Contaminated Urban Soils
Hardcover. Provides a current overview of all facets of urban soils worldwide. Contaminant sources, physical and chemical properties influencing the soil contamination, and assessment are presented. Series: Environmental Pollution. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDZ; RBGB; RBGL; RNP; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 706.
With more than 50% of the world’s population already living in towns and cities, migration from rural areas continuing at an alarming rate in developing countries and suburbanisation using more and more land in developed countries, the urban environment has become supremely important with regard to human health and wellbeing. For centuries, urbanisation has caused relatively low level soil conta- nation mainly by various wastes. However, from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards, both the scale of urban development and the degree of soil contamination rapidly increased and involved an ever widening spectrum of c- taminants. With constraints on ... Read more
With more than 50% of the world’s population already living in towns and cities, migration from rural areas continuing at an alarming rate in developing countries and suburbanisation using more and more land in developed countries, the urban environment has become supremely important with regard to human health and wellbeing. For centuries, urbanisation has caused relatively low level soil conta- nation mainly by various wastes. However, from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards, both the scale of urban development and the degree of soil contamination rapidly increased and involved an ever widening spectrum of c- taminants. With constraints on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
Series
Environmental Pollution
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048193271
SKU
V9789048193271
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99-15
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