Contaminated Soils: From Soil-Chemical Interactions to Ecosystem Management - Hardcover

Lanno, Roman P.; PELLSTON WORKSHOP ON ASSESSING CONTAMINA

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1880611317 ISBN 13: 9781880611319

Publisher: S E T A C Foundation for, 2003

Synopsis

Ten papers from the September 1998 conference in Pellston, Michigan address different aspects of the ecological assessment paradigm. They discuss soil management, fate and transport of contaminants, and measures of bioavailability. Together the papers provide a unified framework representing all the steps of a complete risk assessment and the management of contaminated soils. The resulting summary should be useful to regulators and risk assessors. Contributors include scientists from North America and Europe. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

About the Author

Roman P. Lanno, PhD, is currently an Assistant Professor of Entomology at Ohio State University. Prior to that he was Associate Professor of Zoology and Director of the Ecotoxicology and Water Quality Research Laboratory at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK, USA. He received his PhD in 1991 from the Department of Biology at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and his master’s degree in 1984 from the Department of Nutrition at the University of Guelph, Canada.

Current research interests in his laboratory lie in applied and theoretical aspects of chemical exposure assessment and organismal effects assessment in various environmental media. Specifically, research in his laboratory examines the relationship between chemical and biological measures of bioavailability and toxicity endpoints such as lethality, growth, reproduction, or biomarkers. Studies include work with aquatic and terrestrial systems and both metals and organic chemicals. Researchers in his laboratory have developed and applied solid-phase extraction techniques as biomimetic or biological surrogates for estimating the bioavailability of organic chemicals and metals.

Dr. Lanno has been a member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) since 1988, serving as a member of the Editorial Board for the journal Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry and organizing and presenting short courses in Soil Ecotoxicology and Nutritional Considerations in Toxicity Testing.

From the Inside Flap

A multidisciplinary effort is required not only to understand and integrate the complexities of soil chemical interactions with biological systems but also to summarize the information in a way that regulators and risk assessors can use. The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) convened a workshop that combined all these efforts and resulted in ideas that extended beyond the participants specific areas of expertise and collectively advanced the concepts in ecological risk assessment (ERA) of soils.

The publication objective was to integrate the information from relevant subdisciplines into a unified reference framework containing all the steps that are needed to conduct a complete risk assessment and management of contaminated soils. This product adds to the standard ERA paradigm with focus areas addressing soil management, fate and transport of contaminants, and measures of bioavailability. Using a broad definition of soils because most contaminated sites are not natural soils and have been subjected to anthropogenic modifications, this book focuses on assessing risks to biological receptors from the presence of chemicals in soils.

Contaminated Soils: From Soil Chemical Interactions to Ecosystem Management is one of many SETAC publications that offer timely reviews and new perspectives on current topics relating to broad environmental toxicology and chemistry issues. SETAC publications often are based on the collaborative efforts of top scientists and policymakers, and they undergo extensive prepublication peer reviews. SETAC assumes an active leadership in the development of educational programs and publishes the peer-reviewed, international journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

Edition details

• Publisher: S E T A C Foundation for
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1880611317
• ISBN 13: 9781880611319
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480