Heavy Metals in the Environment - 9780367398620

CRC Press

Written by a leader in the growing field of ecological engineering, Heavy Metals in the Environment: Using Wetlands for Their Removal presents scientific studies that illustrate how natural systems use wetlands to adapt to changes in the ecosystem. The book focuses primarily on lead, one of the first materials used by developing civilizations and a metal used heavily in the industrial era. It includes tables, figures, photographs, and equations that illustrate the concepts and a comprehensive discussion of ecological economics. It presents the results of an international studies and provides numerous appendices that contain additional support documentation. > Much of the convenience of modern life resides in sheet metal, the cowling shield of most machines and appliances. However, the load that this takes off human shoulders has to be carried elsewhere, and the Earth has borne the burden. Many of us woke up to the environmental cost when over a century of industrialization finallyk