Contaminants and the Soil Environment in the Australasia-Pacific Region: Proceedings of the First Australasia-Pacific Conference on Contaminants and Soil Environment in the Australasia-Pacific Region, held in Adelaide, Australia, 18–23 February 1996

✍ Scribed by K. G. Tiller (auth.), R. Naidu, R. S. Kookana, D. P. Oliver, S. Rogers, M. J. McLaughlin (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 721
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Australasia-Pacific Region supports approximately 50% of the world's population. The last half-century has witnessed a rapid increase in the regional population, agricultural productivity, industrial activities and trade within the region. Both the demand for increased food production and the desire to improve the economic conditions have affected regional environmental quality. This volume presents an overview of the fate of contaminants in the soil environment; current soil management factors used to control contaminant impacts, issues related to sludge and effluent disposals in the soil environment; legal, health and social impacts of contaminated land, remediation approaches and strategies to manage contaminated land, some of the problems associated with environmental degradation in the Australasia-Pacific Region and steps that we need to take to safeguard our environment.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Soil contamination issues: past, present and future, a personal perspective....Pages 1-27
The fate of non-metal contaminants in the soil environment....Pages 29-67
Fate of contaminants in the soil environment: metal contaminants....Pages 69-93
Transport and fate of organic contaminants in the subsurface....Pages 95-124
Adverse impacts of agriculture on soil, water and food quality....Pages 125-181
Issues in the disposal of industrial and urban wastes....Pages 183-212
Exploration, mining and mineral processing....Pages 213-266
Legal responses to the problem of soil contamination — the Australian experience....Pages 267-280
Health risk assessment and management of contaminated sites in Australia....Pages 281-307
Listen and learn - developing effective communications strategies to deal with communities affected by contaminated sites....Pages 309-322
Sources, potential adverse effects and remediation of agricultural soil contaminants....Pages 323-359
Technologies for enhanced remediation of contaminated soils and aquifers: overview, analysis, and case studies....Pages 361-410
Remediation of inorganics and organics in industrial and urban contaminated soils....Pages 411-449
Contaminants and the Australian soil environment....Pages 451-484
Contaminants and the soil environment in China....Pages 485-499
Trace metal contamination of the Hong Kong soil environment: a review....Pages 501-511
Soil contaminants in India: an overview....Pages 513-542
Soil contamination issues in the Republic of Korea (South Korea)....Pages 543-562
Contaminants and the soil environment in Malaysia....Pages 563-578
Contaminants and the soil environment in New Zealand....Pages 579-628
Contaminants and the soil environment of Pakistan....Pages 629-646
Contaminants and the soil environment in Papua New Guinea: an overview....Pages 647-657
Contaminated soils in the South Pacific Islands....Pages 659-675
Contaminants and the soil environment in Sri Lanka....Pages 677-690
Contamination of rural and urban soils in Taiwan....Pages 691-709
Back Matter....Pages 711-717

✦ Subjects

Soil Science & Conservation; Terrestrial Pollution; Waste Management/Waste Technology; Ecology