Des W. Connell (Australia Griffith University), Paul Lam (City University of Hong Kong), Bruce Richardson (City Unviersity of Hong Kong)

Broschiertes Buch

Introduction to Ecotoxicology

Beschreibung

Environmental pollution is one of the most serious threats to the future health of our planet. This book takes a broad view of ecotoxicology starting with the nature, properties and behavior of environmental toxicants, and extends to dose/response relationships and effects on organisms, populations, communities and ecosystems.

Autor

DES W. CONNELL is a Reader at Griffith University's School of Australian Environmental Studies in Queensland. He has served as a Visiting Professor at the State University of New York's Marine Sciences Research Center in Stony Brook. His professional experience includes positions as Director of the Gippsland Lakes Environmental Study for the Victorian Ministry of Conservation and Marine Studies Coordinator for the VMC's Westernport Bay Environmental Study. He is a member of the Water Quality Council of Queensland, the Australian Environmental Council's Chemicals Review Subcommittee, and a former member of the Great Barrier Reef Consultative Committee. His other books include Water Pollution: Causes and Effects in Australia and New Zealand and Experiments in Environmental Chemistry. In 1964 Dr. Connell received a Commonwealth Postgraduate Award and, later, the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology Research Award. He received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Queensland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780632038527
• ISBN-10: 0632038527
• Artikelnr.: 24292577