"Heavy Metals: Environmental Impacts and Mitigation" ed. by Mazen Nazal, Hongbo Zhao

This book presents a comprehensive overview of heavy metals including their physiochemical properties, toxicity, transfer in the environment, legislation, environmental impacts, and mitigation measures.

In recent years, urbanization and industrialization have produced large amounts of heavy metals, which are highly toxic to both humans and the environment. Written by experts in the field, chapters include scientific research as well as case studies.

Contents
1. Environmental Pollution with Heavy Metals: A Public Health Concern
2. Heavy Metal Sources and Their Effects on Human Health
3. Concentrations of Heavy Metals as Proxies of Marine Pollution along Nellore Coast of South District, Andhra Pradesh
4. Heavy Metal Contamination in a Protected Natural Area from Southeastern Mexico: Analysis of Risks to Human Health
5. Consumption Safety in Relation to Bioaccumulation of Heavy Metals in Periwinkles (Tympanotonus fuscatus) Obtained from Ogbia in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria
6. Role of Heavy Metals in the Incidence of Human Cancers
7. Occurrence and Impact of Heavy Metals on Some Water, Land, Flora and Fauna Resources across Southwestern Nigeria
8. Environmental Impacts of Heavy Metals and Their Bioremediation
9. Metallothioneins: Diverse Protein Family to Bind Metallic Ions
10. Removal of Heavy Metals from Wastewater by Adsorption
11. Biotechnological Approaches to Facilitate Gold Recovery from Double Refractory Gold Ores
12. Rare Earth Elements Biorecovery from Mineral Ores and Industrial Wastes
13. Electrochemical and Optical Methods for the Quantification of Lead and Other Heavy Metal Ions in Liquid Samples
14. Bio Hydrometallurgical Technology, Application and Process Enhancement
15. Modern Technologies for Pest Control: A Review


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