Features •Addresses the world’s largest environmental health hazard •Includes technical insights drawn from GIS-based modeling for spatial risk of arsenic contamination •Provides a state-of-the-art review of the human health literature and cutting-edge scientific evidence for arsenic-related health effects •Presents environmental policy and public mitigation strategies related to arsenic contamination •Covers arsenic pollution from both a scientific and social science perspective Summary Arsenic-contaminated groundwater has created one of the world’s largest environmental health crises. This book addresses the arsenic issue within a scientific and social science framework, with the context set by environmental and legal considerations. The text explores the methodological issues of spatial, quantitative, and qualitative enquiries on arsenic poisoning, for instance, using GIS to investigate the distribution of arsenic-laced water in space-time to uncover the pattern of variations over
ARSENIC IN GROUNDWATER
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Author: | MUHAMMAD MANZURUL HASSAN |
ISBN: | 9781439839270 |
Publisher: | CRC PRESS |
Category: | SCIENCE | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE |
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Level: | None |
BookCover: | Hard Cover |
Number Of Pages: | 351 |
Volume Number | 0 |
Number Of Volumes | 0 |
Edition No: | 1 |