Causes and Effects of Heavy Metal Pollution

Contents: Preface; Geochemical Processes Controlling Fate and Transport of Arsenic in Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) and other Natural Systems; Impacts of the Mining and Smelting Activities to the Environment - Slovenian Case Studies; Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage by A Combined Chemical/Biological Column Apparatus: Mechanisms of Heavy Metal Removal; Assisted Phytoextraction for Abandoned Mining Areas Remediation; Phytochelatins in the Wild Plants from Guanajuato City - An Important Silver and Gold Mining Center in Mexico; Fate of Trace Elements in the Venice Lagoon Watershed and Conterminous Areas (Italy); Anthropogenic Mercury Pollution in Aquatic Systems: A Review of Environmental Fate and Human Health Risks; In Situ Measurement of Metal Concentration in River Water Using Portable EDXRF System; Biomonitoring of Heavy Metal Pollution in the Marine Environment using Indictor Organisms; Heavy Metal Contamination in Selected Urban Coastal Regions in US and China; Monitoring Heavy Metal Pollution with Transgenic Plants; Geochemistry of Major and Trace Elements in Core Sediments of Sunderban Delta, India: An Assessment of Metal Pollution Using Atomic Absorption Spectrometer and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry; Heavy Metal Pollution, Risk Assessment and Remediation in Paddy Soil Environment: Research Experiences and Perspectives in Korea; Index.