Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: Current and Future Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Bryan W. Brooks, Jason P. Berninger (auth.), Bryan W. Brooks, Duane B. Huggett (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 302
• Series: Emerging Topics in Ecotoxicology 4
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Human interaction with the environment remains one of the most pervasive facets of modern society. In a world characterized by rapid population growth, unprecedented global trade and digital communications, energy security, natural resource scarcities, climatic changes and environmental quality, emerging diseases and public health, biodiversity and habitat modifications are routinely touted by the popular press as they canvas global political agendas and scholarly endeavors.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Perspectives on Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment....Pages 1-16
Environmental Risk Assessment for Human Pharmaceuticals: The Current State of International Regulations....Pages 17-47
Regulation of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: The USA....Pages 49-61
Environmental Fate of Human Pharmaceuticals....Pages 63-83
Environmental Comparative Pharmacology: Theory and Application....Pages 85-108
A Look Backwards at Environmental Risk Assessment: An Approach to Reconstructing Ecological Exposures....Pages 109-137
Considerations and Criteria for the Incorporation of Mechanistic Sublethal Endpoints into Environmental Risk Assessment for Biologically Active Compounds....Pages 139-165
Human Health Risk Assessment for Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: Existing Practice, Uncertainty, and Future Directions....Pages 167-224
Wastewater and Drinking Water Treatment Technologies....Pages 225-255
Pharmaceutical Take Back Programs....Pages 257-285
Back Matter....Pages 287-302

✦ Subjects

Ecotoxicology; Pharmacology/Toxicology; Environmental Management; Analytical Chemistry