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This volume focuses on modelling the fate of chemicals in the environment and the human body to arrive at an integrated exposure assessment.

This volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the water resources in the Souss-Massa river basin in southwestern Morocco and provides novel water-management approaches to narrow the gap between supply and demand for water.

This volume consists of 15 chapters and focuses on hazardous chemicals, how they are associated with plastics, and their environmental risks.

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume focuses on microscopic plastic debris, also referred to as microplastics, which have been detected in aquatic environments around the globe and have accordingly raised serious concerns.

This volume presents a discussion of the current state of knowledge on karst science, advances in karst mapping and karst aquifer monitoring technologies, case studies of karst aquifer assessment, and regulatory perspectives on land use and water management in karst environments.

This volume investigates the challenges facing the Egyptian Northern coastal lakes, focusing on the impact of climate change, their biodiversity and sustainable management. Further, management strategies for the sustainable development of these valuable resources are proposed to maintain the lakes sustainability.

This volume reviews the drinking water treatments in which AOPs display a high application potential.

Current climatic conditions of lake regions in Poland and impact on their functioning.- Polish rivers as hydrographic objects.-Geoecosystems of Polish lakes.- Occurrence, genetic types and evolution of lake basins in Poland.- Soft water lobelia lakes in Poland.- Environmental conditions in Polish lakes with different types of catchments.- Characteristic of bottom sediments of Polish lakes with different trophic status.- Characteristics of the water network in post-glacial areas of northern Poland.- The role of lakes in shaping the runoff of lakeland rivers.- Total organic carbon in water of Polish dam reservoirs.- The Great Masurian Lakes: hydrological regime and summer phytoplankton.- Trophic State, Eutrophication and the Threats for Water Quality of The Great Masurian Lakes System.- Nutrient balance of north-eastern Poland lakes.- The internal phosphorus loading in eutrophic lakes in Western Poland.- The effect of a dam reservoir on water trophic status and forms of river transport of nutrient.- Heated Konin Lakes: structure, functioning and succession.

Written by expert contributors, it addresses occurrence, detection and extraction of strontium, the chemical and nuclear properties of strontium isotopes, the fate and migration of strontium in soil, its bioaccumulation, and its associated health impact, mechanistic toxicity response as well as related regulation and remediation.

Antibiotic resistance in the environment: expert perspectives.- Antibiotic resistant bacteria in wildlife.- Genomic surveillance for One Health antimicrobial resistance: understanding human, animal, and environmental reservoirs and transmission.- Antibiotic resistance in pharmaceutical industry effluents and effluent-impacted environments.- Antibiotic resistance in municipal wastewater: A special focus on hospital effluents.- Control strategies to combat dissemination of antibiotic resistance in urban water systems.- Antibiotic resistance, sanitation and public health.- Antibiotic resistance and sanitation in India: current situation and future perspectives.- Mitigating antimicrobial resistance risks when using reclaimed municipal wastewater for agriculture.- Antibiotic resistance in soil.- Religious Mass Gathering (Hajj) and Antimicrobial Resistance: From Challenges to Opportunities.- Human movement and transmission of anti-microbial resistant bacteria.

This book focuses on microplastics as emerging persistent contaminants in terrestrial environments. Offering a comprehensive overview of microplastics in terrestrial environments, the book is a valuable resource for environmental researchers, ecologists and toxicologists, as well as for policymakers and non-experts.

Introduction.- Role of water resources in the modern world.- Evolution of Water Resources Management in Central Asia.- Water resources transfer in Central Asia: Projects, results and perspectives.- Legal aspects of water resources management in Central Asian countries.- Main Problems of Water Resources Use in Central Asia.- Water bodies and water resources of the Kyrgyz Republic and challenges in their transboundary use.- Tajikistan Water Resources and Water Management Issues.- Current Hydropower Potential of Kazakhstan.- The level of anthropogenic pollution of the Kapshagay Water Reservoir, Republic of Kazakhstan.- Current state of water resources and problems of their use in border regions of Russia (the Ob-Irtysh Basin as a case study).- Conclusions.

Sunscreen Components Are a New Environmental Concern in Coastal Waters: An Overview.- Sunscreen Regulation in the World.- Chemical UV filters. Analysis in marine waters.- Fate and Behavior of UV Filters in the Marine Environment.- Bioaccumulation and Toxicological Effects of UV-Filters on Marine Species.- The Mediterranean Sea.- Environmental risk assessment of sunscreens.- Sustainable Sunscreens: A Challenge Between Performance, Animal Testing Ban, and Human and Environmental Safety.

This book reviews the globally important freshwater resource of the Great Lakes, which is currently threatened by contaminants that compromise water quality and impact its ecological and economic health.

This volume provides an overview of recent trends in bioremediation techniques. Gathering contributions by a multi-disciplinary team of authors, it reviews the available methodologies for the remediation of various types of waste, e.g. e-waste, wastewater, municipal solid waste and algal blooms. Bioprocessing techniques are not only used for environmental cleanup but also for the production of valuable added products from waste biomass. Accordingly, this book provides the reader with an update on current valorization techniques for biofuels, algal biorefineries, and the hydrothermal conversion of biomass.Given its interdisciplinary scope, the book offers a valuable asset for students, researchers and engineers working in biotechnology, environmental engineering, wastewater management, chemical engineering and related areas.

This book reviews the latest water quality protection and water resources development strategies in Algeria.

This book reviews comprehensively the opportunities and responsibilities of science, society and politics to combat plastic pollution in marine and freshwaters. It provides insights on what information is needed, and from whom, and it outlines policies proposed by various institutions including OSPAR, HELCOM and the European Union. Plastic waste has become a global threat to the aquatic environment that does not stop at country borders. Meanwhile, there are many efforts in science, industry, commerce and governments to tackle the problem worldwide. School education, NGO public actions, voluntary trade reduction measures, governmental management options and governmental regulatory actions are part of the portfolio of efforts to deal with the problem.Together with the companion volume Plastics in the Aquatic Environment - Part I: Current Status and Challenges, it provides scientists, policymakers and environmental managers with essential reference information on how this problem is being solved, what challenges and barriers are expected and how they can be overcome.  

This book offers a comprehensive review of how plastic pollution is affecting fresh and marine waters, and what the current challenges in plastic waste assessment and management in the aquatic environment are. Plastic waste comprises particles with heterogeneous physicochemical properties such as large size-range, different shapes and polymer types with various additives determining their environmental fate and risk. This complexity raises several open research questions which are explored in this book. Examples are the plastic uptake by aquatic organisms, degradation processes as well as sources and sinks in the environment.Readers will discover real case studies of plastic pollution detection and management in different parts of the world, including Asia, America and Europe, which provide an integrated overview of the global scope of this issue.This book and the companion volume Plastics in the Aquatic Environment - Part II: Stakeholders'' Role Against Pollution are valuable resources to students, researchers, policymakers and environmental managers interested in plastic pollution and working towards its reduction. 

This book reviews the latest water quality protection and water resources development strategies in Algeria.

Comprising 12 chapters, this book focuses on volatile methylsiloxanes (VMSs), the shorter-chained organosiloxanes, and reviews the main areas and environmental compartments where they have been found and studied.

This book reviews the latest developments concerning the analysis, fate, behaviour and toxicity of pyrethroid insecticides.

This book reviews the current state of knowledge on, recent advances in, and future prospects of Montenegrin river basins in the context of anthropogenic activities.

This book focuses on microplastics as emerging persistent contaminants in terrestrial environments. Offering a comprehensive overview of microplastics in terrestrial environments, the book is a valuable resource for environmental researchers, ecologists and toxicologists, as well as for policymakers and non-experts.