Environmental Management and Health: Volume 4 Issue 1
Table of contents
Highlights I. The Planet’s Future II. Food and Chemistry
J. RoseI. Reviews the joint statement from the US National Academy ofSciences and the UK Royal Society on the catastrophic consequences ofunbridled population growth, excessive…
Air Pollution and Health: Economic and Epidemiological Aspects
Mordechai Shechter, Leon Epstein, Ayala CohenExamines three inter‐related facets of environmental pollution: thephysiological facet, namely the effect of exposure on health(specifically, morbidity), which has revealed a…
Organomercury Compounds: Some Toxicological Aspects
Mervyn Richardson, I.M. Trakhtenberg, M.N. KorshunSummarizes some of the most relevant toxicological aspects from theUNEP/IRPTC′s Scientific Reviews of Soviet Literature on Toxicity andHazards of Chemicals, No. 117 Organomercury…
Impact of Lead Pollution on the Contamination of Water, Soil and Plants
Ibrahim M. El‐Gamal, Hussein I. Abdel‐Shafy, Kamal T. HindyExamines the effect of pollution along the agriculture highwaybetween Cairo and Alexandria. Different samples of water, soil andplants (clover) were collected from nine variable…
Five Years Post‐Chernobyl: Accumulation of γ‐radioactivity in Intertidal Organisms (Skye, UK)
F.B. Pyatt, E.H. BeaumontAn analysis of radioactivity in organisms inhabiting the intertidalregion of the Island of Skye revealed accumulation of gammaradioactivity by specific organisms, such as lichens…