Heavy Metals in the Environment: Impact, Assessment, and Remediation

Heavy Metals in the Environment: Impact, Assessment, and Remediation synthesizes both fundamental concepts of heavy metal pollutants and state-of-the-art techniques and technologies for assessment and remediation. The book discusses the sources, origin and health risk assessment of heavy metals as well as the application of GIS, remote sensing and multivariate techniques in the assessment of heavy metals. The various contamination indices like contamination factor, geoaccumulation index, enrichment factor, and pollution index ecological risk index are also included to provide further context on the state of heavy metals in the environment.

Covering a variety of approaches, techniques, and scenarios, this book is a key resource for environmental scientists and policymakers working to address environmental pollutants.

Covers state-of-the-art techniques for the assessment and remediation of heavy metalsPresents the interdisciplinary impacts of heavy metals, including human health, ecosystems and water qualityIncludes various contamination indices, such as contamination factor, geoaccumulation index, enrichment factor, pollution index and ecological risk index

1. Heavy metals in the Ecosystem; Sources and their effects 2. Chemistry of Heavy metals in the environment 3. Geochemical background of heavy metals in the environment 4. Monitoring and Impact Assessment Approaches of heavy metals 5. Heavy metal contamination indices and ecological risk assessment index to assess metal pollution status in different soils 6. Combination of contamination indices and ecological risk assessment index for evaluation of pollution level in sediments 7. Use of multivariate statistical techniques to determine the source apportionment of heavy metals in soils and sediments 8. Human health risk assessment of heavy metals in different soils and sediments 9. Assessment of water quality using different pollution indices and multivariate statistical techniques 10. Heavy metal contamination in water and its possible sources 11. Application of GIS and remote sensing in heavy metal assessment 12. Remediation and detection techniques for heavy metals in the environment