Research Catalog

Title

Organic pollutants : an ecotoxicological perspective / C.H. Walker ; with contribution from Charles Tyler.

Author

Walker, C. H. (Colin Harold), 1936-

Publication

Boca Raton : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, [2009], ©2009.

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Description

xvii, 414 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

"Keeping the same format as the first edition, the text begins with the coverage of the basic principles underpinning the environmental behavior and effects of organic pollutants. It then describes the properties and ecotoxicology of major pollutants and explores future prospects. In the the last section, the author discusses some issues that arise after consideration of the material in the second part of the text." "The book takes a bottom up approach, describing the mechanisms by which pollutants have harmful effects on living organisms and how these effects are translated into adverse changes at the population level. This mechanistic approach supplies the basis for development of new mechanistic biomarker assays which in turn provide measures of toxic effect and not merely of exposure and subsequently provide evidence of causality between pollutants levels and ecological changes."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Toxicology
• Ecotoxicology
• Carbon Compounds, Inorganic
• Environmental toxicology
• Organic compounds > Environmental aspects
• Organic compounds > Toxicology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-375) and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. Basic Principles -- Ch. 1. Chemical Warfare -- Ch. 2. Factors Determining the Toxicity of Organic Pollutants to Animals and Plants -- Ch. 3. Influence of the Properties of Chemicals on Their Environmental Fate -- Ch. 4. Distribution and Effects of Chemicals in Communities and Ecosystems -- Pt. 2. Major Organic Pollutants -- Ch. 5. The Organochlorine Insecticides -- Ch. 6. Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Polybrorninated Biphenyls -- Ch. 7. Polychlorinated Dihenzodioxins and Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans -- Ch. 8. Organometallic Compounds -- Ch. 9. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons -- Ch. 10. Organophosphorus and Carbamate Insecticides -- Ch. 11. Anticoagulant Rodenticides -- Ch. 12. Pyrethroid Insecticides -- Pt. 3. Further Issues and Future Prospects -- Ch. 13. Dealing with Complex Pollution Problems -- Ch. 14. The Ecotoxicological Effects of Herbicides -- Ch. 15. Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Their Environmental Impacts / R. M. Goodhead and C. R. Tyler -- Ch. 16. Neurotoxicity and Behavioral Effects of Environmental Chemicals -- Ch. 17. Organic Pollutants: Future Prospects.

ISBN

• 9781420062588 (alk. paper)
• 1420062581 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2008030227

OCLC

• ocn154683828
• 154683828
• SCSB-5447347

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries