Overview
- Offers an overview of environmental pollution in an estuary with an adjacent human population of over 70 million and rapid economic growth
- Written by experts in the field of marine ecotoxicology
- Incorporates the latest literature on environmental risk assessment and water quality assessment
Part of the book series: Estuaries of the World (EOTW)
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This book addresses the major environmental concerns regarding this estuary, contaminants and other pollutants, e.g. toxic metals, organic contaminants and emerging compounds. Questions addressed here include: What are the sources of the contaminants? What have the environmental consequences of these contaminants been for the estuary? What will the future bring? The research presented here on the Pearl River Estuary offers a wealth of insights for other major contaminated estuaries around the world.
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About the authors
Prof. Philip Rainbow has nearly 50 years of experience researching the biology of trace metals. As lecturer, reader, professor and Head of Department at the School of Biological Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, he has taught students at the undergraduate, masters and PhD levels, and often conducted courses overseas. From 1997 to 2013, he was Keeper of Zoology and subsequently Head of the Department of Life Sciences at the Natural History Museum in London. He has published more than 250 refereed scientific publications, including one single-authored, two co-authored and seven edited books, and more than 30 popular articles. In 1998 he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Biology, and in 2014 a Fellow of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. In 2002, he was awarded the Environmental Pollution Kenneth Mellanby Review Award.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Pollution of the Pearl River Estuary, China
Book Subtitle: Status and Impact of Contaminants in a Rapidly Developing Region
Authors: Wen-Xiong Wang, Philip S. Rainbow
Series Title: Estuaries of the World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61834-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-61832-5Published: 20 July 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-61834-9Published: 19 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2214-1553
Series E-ISSN: 2214-1561
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 125
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Ecotoxicology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis