Environmental Modeling and Health Risk Analysis (Acts/Risk)

✍ Scribed by Mustafa M. Aral (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 477
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is intended to serve as a comprehensive source for the advancements and contributions made in environmental transformation and transport modeling in general and the associated health risk assessment topics in particular. The selection of the title, “Environmental Modeling and Health Risk Analysis” stems from an ambitious objective of providing a review of air, surface water and groundwater quality modeling topics and linking these models with exposure and health risk analysis. Thus, the purpose is to provide the reader with an integrated perspective on these two seemingly distant fields. The ACTS and RISK software that is an integral part of this book include computational platforms for all models discussed in the book. Using these two software tools, available from http://extras.springer.com/, the models described in the book can be readily accessed and used in classroom or professional applications as demonstrated in the book.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-36
Principles of Environmental Modeling....Pages 37-61
Conservation Principles, and Environmental Transformation and Transport....Pages 63-94
Air Pathway Analysis....Pages 95-186
Groundwater Pathway Analysis....Pages 187-274
Surface Water Pathway Analysis....Pages 275-332
Uncertainty and Variability Analysis....Pages 333-355
Health Risk Analysis....Pages 357-377
Application: Pesticide Transport in Shallow Groundwater and Environmental Risk Assessment....Pages 379-407
Back Matter....Pages 409-470

✦ Subjects

Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Civil Engineering; Environmental Health; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis