Causes and effects of heavy metal pollution

Chapter 1 Impacts of the Mining and Smelting Activities to the Environment – Slovenian Case Studies 1 Gorazd ژibret and Robert ٹajn Chapter 2 Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage by a Combined Chemical/Biological Column Apparatus: Mechanisms of Heavy Metal Removal 81 Francesca Pagnanelli, Ida De Michelis, Michele Di Tommaso, Francesco Ferella, LuigiToro and Francesco Vegliٍ Chapter 3 Assisted Phytoextraction for Abandoned Mining Areas Remediation 107 Alessia Cao, Alessandra Carucci and Tiziana Lai Chapter 4 Phytochelatins in Wild Plants from Guanajuato City – an Important Silver and Gold Mining Center in Mexico 123 Kazimierz Wrobel, Julio Alberto Landero Figueroa and Katarzyna Wrobel Chapter 5 Fate of Trace Elements in the Venice Lagoon Watershed and Conterminous Areas (Italy) 137 C. Bini Chapter 6 Anthropogenic Mercury Pollution in Aquatic Systems: A Review of Enviromental Fate and Human Health Risks 173 S. Michele Harmon Chapter 7 In Situ Measurement of Metal Concentration in River Water Using Portable Edxrf System 201 Fلbio L. Melquiades,Carlos R. Appoloni, Paulo S. Parreira and Wislley D. Silva Chapter 8 Biomonitoring of Heavy Metal Pollution in the Marine Environment Using Indicator Organisms 249 Joseph Selvin, S. Shanmugha Priya, G. Seghal Kiran and Saroj Bhosle vi Contents Chapter 9 Heavy Metal Contamination in Selected Urban Coastal Regions in US and China 265 Huan Feng, Weiguo Zhang, Luoping Zhang, Xu-Chen Wang, Lizhong Yu and Danlin Yu Chapter 10 Monitoring Heavy Metal Pollution with Transgenic Plants 287 Igor Kovalchuk and Olga Kovalchuk Chapter 11 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 305 A. Bhattacharya, K.K. Satpathy, M.V.R. Prasad, J. Canario, M. Chatterjee, S.K Sarkar, V. Branco, B. Bhattacharya, A. K. Bandyopadhyay and Md. Aftab Alam Chapter 12 Heavy Metal Pollution, Risk Assessment and Remediation in Paddy Soil Environment: Research Experiences and Perspectives in Korea 341 Jae E. Yang, Yong Sik Ok, Won-Il Kim and Jin-Soo Lee Index 371