Toxic substances in the environment /
By: Francis, Bettina Magnus.
Series: Environmental science and technology.Publisher: New York : J. Wiley & Sons, c1994Description: xviii, 360 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0471507814 (acidfree paper); 9780471507819 :.Subject(s): Pollution -- Environmental aspects | Pollution -- Health aspects | Toxicology | Environmental Pollution | Environmental Pollutants | Environment Pollution Toxic chemicalsDDC classification: 363.73Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Withdrawn | 363.73 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0031482 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-344) and index.
Ecosystems and ecotoxicology -- Air pollution and global ecosystems -- Terrestrial and health effects of air pollution -- Water pollution, persistence and bioaccumulation -- Hazardous waste disposal -- Health effects of environmental chemicals -- Neurotoxicity -- Developmental toxicology -- Genetic toxicology -- Carcinogenesis -- Policy in environmental toxicology -- Social issues.
An overview of environmental toxicology in its widest sense, which includes both the ecological and the health effects of environmental contaminants. Two case histories illustrate pathways by which the accidental or deliberate dispersal of chemicals can imbalance ecosystems.