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- Editors:
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Guido Persoone
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University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
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Colin Janssen
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University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
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Wim Coen
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University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Table of contents (60 chapters)
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Toxicity Testing of Wastes, Waste Waters And Leachates
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Front Matter
Pages 305-305
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- J. Ahtiainen, T. Nakari, M. Ruoppa, M. Verta, E. Talka
Pages 307-317
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- I. Czerniawska-Kusza, M. Ebis
Pages 319-322
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- A. Joutti, E. Schultz, E. Tuukkanen, K. Vaajasaari
Pages 347-355
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- A. Kahru, L. Põllumaa, R. Reiman, A. Rätsep
Pages 357-365
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- J. Malá, E. MaršáLková, P. RovnanÃKová
Pages 385-390
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- L. Manusadzianas, L. Balkelyte, K. Sadauskas, L. Stoškus
Pages 391-399
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- M. Michniewicz, G. Nalecz-Jawecki, J. Stufka-Olczyk, J. Sawicki
Pages 401-411
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- K. Vaajasaari, J. Ahtiainen, T. Nakari, H. Dahlbo
Pages 413-423
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Toxicity Testing of Soils And Sediments
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Front Matter
Pages 425-425
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- G. Persoone, M. L. Vangheluwe
Pages 427-439
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- P. Ross, P. Leitman, A. Ringwood, M. Delorenzo
Pages 441-448
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- M. L. Vangheluwe, C. R. Janssen, P. A. Van Sprang
Pages 449-458
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- P. A. Van Sprang, M. L. Vangheluwe, C. R. Janssen
Pages 459-465
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Toxicity Testing of Air Pollution
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Front Matter
Pages 467-467
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- K. Eleftheriadis, A. Angelaki, A. Kungolos, L. Nalbandian, G. P. Sakellaropoulos
Pages 469-473
About this book
The determination of the hazards resulting from the accidental or deli berate contamination of terrestrial and aquatic environments is in most countries still lirnited to the detection and quantification of the suspected pollutants by chemical analyses. Such an approach is unfortunately hampered by the following constraints : the costs as weil as the technical difficulties of analyzing every individual chemical which may be present in the sampies, and the difficulty of assessing the hazards and risks of environmental contaminations from a set of chemical data. During the last decades the scientific and regulatory community has gradually realized that biological methodologies have to be taken into consideration for an ecologically meaningful assessment of the toxicological hazards of contaminants. Effect evaluations obtained with biological techniques indeed integrate the impact of all the contaminants to which living biota are exposed. Bioassays with selected test species representative for the biological commumtles of the environments under consideration, are now applied more or less regularly to determine toxic and genotoxic effects. Taking into account the species specific and chemical specific character of toxicity to biota, the necessity of a «battery of tests» approach with species of different trophic levels is currently also generally accepted and implemented. It is dear that a balanced partnership between chemical, biological, toxicological and microbiological analyses is always the best strategy for generating the broadest information base on environmental hazards.
Reviews
`This book is generally well produced and well illustrated. It contains a wealth fo material on microbiotests, and is a must for practioners in the field. More generally, it is a valuable reference work on the wide range of microbiotests currently being used, which will be of interest to scientists working in related fields.'
Alternatives To Laboratory Animals, Vol.29 (Sept. 2000)