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Quality of Information on Contamination of the Environment

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Heavy Metals

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Society has a great demand for environmental analyses. Decisions on the management of waste materials are based on chemical data. Legislation imposes the acquisition of concentrations of a variety of constituents. Environmental taxes may be based on the concentrations of specific compounds. The need for sanitation measures may be assessed through a programme of measurements. Finally, monitoring of contaminants in air, water, sediments, soils and waste streams is carried out on a large scale for a number of purposes.

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  1. Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1115, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  1. Arbeitsbereich Umweltschutztechnik, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Eißendorfer Straße 40, D-21071, Hamburg, Germany

    Ulrich Förstner

  2. GKSS Research Center, Max Planck Straße, D-21502, Geesthacht, Germany

    Wim Salomons

  3. Faculty of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, 126 21 Prague 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic

    Pavel Mader

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Cofino, W.P. (1995). Quality of Information on Contamination of the Environment. In: Förstner, U., Salomons, W., Mader, P. (eds) Heavy Metals. Environmental Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79316-5_5

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