Environmental Forensics

Proceedings of the 2014 Inef Conference
Herausgeber: O'Sullivan, Gwen; Megson, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This publication is based on peer-reviewed manuscripts from the 2014 International Network of Environmental Forensics (INEF) Conference held at St John's College, Cambridge. INEF is an organization founded by environmental forensic scientists for the express purpose of sharing and disseminating environmental forensic information to the international scientific community. Providing a wide range of up to date topics on the advancement and refinement of environmental forensic techniques, this book ensures the reader gets a good understanding of the scope of environmental forensics. Aimed at scientists, regulators, academics and consultants throughout the world, this professionally edited book is the fourth of a series of INEF conference publications chronicling the current state of the art in environmental forensics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: RSC Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781782624448
• ISBN-10: 1782624449
• Artikelnr.: 42811791

Inhaltsangabe

Interaction between the regulator and practitioners in the field of
environmental investigations; An introduction to a multiparameter approach
to improve the reliability of environmental crime evidence; Environmental
litigation issues in Taiwan and the forensics strategies of chlorinated
hydrocarbon contaminated sites; Forensic investigations in a PCB case:
potential pitfalls and tips; Use of symmetric tetrachloroethane to age date
chlorinated solvent releases; A forensic methodology for investigating
chlorinated solvent releases from a dry cleaner; 13C and d37Cl on gas-phase
TCE for source identification investigation - Innovative solvent-based
sampling method; Characterisation and modeling of dust in a semi-arid
construction environment; Assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in
an urban soil dataset; Statistics of lost historical coal tar PAH
contamination in soils and sediments; Micro-bubbles oxygen injection in
groundwater contaminated by organic biodegradable compounds and metals;
Heavy metals (lead, cadmium, chromium, nickel and zinc) contamination in
selected electronic waste dumpsites in Lagos, Nigeria; Evidence for acid
mine drainage in an urban stream in the West Midands; A Practical
Evaluation of Petrogenic and Biogenic Methane Sources in the Context of
Redevelopment and Explosive Hazard Management in Los Angeles, California;
Subject Index