DeVivo

Environmental Geochemistry: Site Characterization, Data Analysis and Case Histories

Herausgeber: Devivo, Benedetto; Lima, Annamaria; Belkin, Harvey

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume contains chapters spanning from the role of geochemistry in the environment in general to specific investigations on site characterization (sampling strategy, analytical procedures and problems). Specific articles deal with health problems related to environment pollution, waste disposal, data base management, and provide illustrations of specific case histories of site characterization and remediation of brownfield sites.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Books
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: B978-0-444-53159-9.X0001-0
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 170mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 980g
• ISBN-13: 9780444531599
• ISBN-10: 0444531599
• Artikelnr.: 23580730

Autorenporträt

Benedetto De Vivo, after graduation (1971) from the University of Naples Federico II in Geological Sciences and military service (1972), worked for private companies operating in Italy, Africa, and Central America in the field of ore deposits, geochemical prospecting, environmental geology, and hydrogeology (1973-1977). Later, he was a Researcher at CNR-Roma, Italy (1977-1987), Associate Professor in Applied Geochemistry (1987-2000), and Full Professor in Geochemistry at the University of Napoli Federico II (2000-2017). He was a research fellow at the Colorado School of Mines (1978) and at US Geological Survey, Reston, VA (1982 and 1992); Chairman of the Working Group "Inclusions in Minerals? of the International Mineralogical Association; Member of the Editorial Board of GEEA (2004-2007), Minerology and Petrol (1997-2007), American Mineralogist, and Chief Editor of Journal of Geochemical Exploration (2007-2017). His research interests span a wide range of topics including geochem

ical prospecting, fluid and melt inclusions studies on volcanic and sub-volcanic systems, and environmental geochemistry. He has published about 300 papers (in top international peer-reviewed journals), editing different special volumes (Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, European Journal of Mineralogy, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, and, Minerology and Petrol), and has authored four text books (in Italian) in geochemical prospecting and environmental geochemistry. He was nominated (2001) as Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America and appointed as an Adjunct Professor at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA (2006), Nanjing University, China (2016), and Hubei Polytechnic University, Huansgshi, China (2019). He was the recipient of the 2019 Gold Medal Award of the Association of Applied Geochemists for outstanding scientific contributions and achievement in applied geochemistry.

Inhaltsangabe

PROPOSED TABLE OF CONTENTS

1)Introduction. 2)The role of geochemistry in environment and health problems. 3)Regional Programs. FOREGS. Sampling methods for different media - Stream sediments, soils, waters. 4) Environmental impact of the disposal of solid by-products from waste incineration processes. 5)Household hazardous waste disposal as a pathway for environmental pollution. 6)Sampling methods for site characterization and waste disposal. 7)Site investigations of stream and groundwaters: How to avoid getting into deep water. 8) Methods of chemical analysis of organics and quality controls.
9)Data base management at regional scale.
10)Data analysis and treatment, at local scale, using GIS and GeoDAS. 11)Evaluation of background/baseline values. 12)Geochemical mapping of urban areas. Examples on the munipal soils of Napoli, Avellino, Caserta, Benevento and Salerno towns. 13) Thermodynamics of platinum, palladium, and rhodium with inorganic ligands in the environment. 14)Trace metals speciation and bioavailability in soil. 15)Environment pollution, epidemiology and Workers problems. 16)Medical Geology: Application to arsenic and fluorine poisoning in southwest Guizhou Province, China.
17)Contaminated land in Britain. 18)The US brownfields program: Case studies reflect progress and challenges. 19)Case history of site characterization in Italy: Bagnoli brownfield site.