Keywords:
Pollution.
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Environmental health.
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Refuse and refuse disposal.
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Environmental chemistry.
Description / Table of Contents:
Part1. Introduction to Plastic pollution -- Chapter1. Emerging issue of Microplastic in Sediments and Surface water of South Asia: A Review of Status, Research Needs and Data Gaps -- Chapter2. Extraction, Enumeration and Identification Methods for Monitoring Microplastics in the Aquatic Environment -- Chapter3. Monitoring of Microplastic Pollution -- Chapter4. Polymer types of microplastic in coastal areas -- Chapter5. Evaluation of Different Metrics to Study Microplastics as an Environmental Forensic Tool -- Part2. Environmental Occurrence -- Chapter6. Atmospheric microplastic distribution, fate, and behaviour in context to pollution -- Chapter7. Microplastic Pollution in the Context of Occurrence, Distribution, Composition, and Concentration in Surface Waters and Sediments: A Global Overview -- Chapter8. Microplastic Pollution in the Black Sea: An Overview of the Current Situation -- Chapter9. Occurrence and fate of microplastics in freshwater resources -- Chapter10. Occurrence of microplastic pollution in freshwater -- Chapter11. Occurrence of Microplastic Pollution in Coastal Areas -- Chapter12. Modeling the fate and transport of microplastics in coastal areas -- Chapter13. Occurrence of microplastic pollution in marine water -- Part III. Risk assessment and health impact -- Chapter14. Microplastic Pollution and Contamination of Seafood (including fish, sharks, mussels, oysters, shrimps, and seaweeds): A Global Overview -- Chapter15. Impacts of Plasticizers on Riverine Ecological Integrity in Context to Sustainability Challenges -- Chapter16. Consequences of Plastic Trash on Behavior and Ecology of Birds -- Chapter17. Risk assessment of microplastic pollution -- Chapter18. The ecotoxicological effects of microplastics on trophic levels of aquatic ecosystems -- Chapter19. Ecological and public health effects of microplastics pollution -- PartIV. Treatment Technologies -- Chapter20. Microplastics as an emerged contaminant and its potential treatment technologies -- Chapter21. Green treatment technologies for microplastic pollution -- Chapter22. Chemical Technologies to degrade microplastic pollution -- Chapter23. Bibliometric Analysis of Emerging Trends in Research on Microplastic Pollution in Post-Paris Agreement and Post-COVID-19 Pandemic World.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 550 p. 77 illus., 67 illus. in color.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2022.
ISBN:
9783030892203
Series Statement:
Emerging Contaminants and Associated Treatment Technologies
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89220-3
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-89220-3
Language:
English
