Overview
- Provides state-of-the-art environmental risk analysis for East Asian countries
- Highlights the practical use of environmental risk assessment, especially for a watershed-scale management, based on Malaysia as a representative East Asian country
- Covers not only modern urban houses but also vernacular houses in respective countries
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Situation of Environmental Risk in a Watershed
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Screening Methods of Environmental Risk in a Watershed
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Management of Environmental Risk in a Watershed
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Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Minoru Yoneda is a Professor of Environmental Risk Analysis at Kyoto University (KU) and currently vice dean of the school of engineering. He gained BSc, MSc and PhD of Engineering from KU. He is currently the president of the Society for Remediation of Radioactive Contamination in Environment of Japan and a board member of the Society for Risk Analysis Japan. He works on clarification of dynamism and exposure-dosage assessments of heavy metals and toxic organic chemical substances in general living environments to evaluate their risk for the public. He also aims to clarify the mechanisms of urban soil contamination with traces of harmful substances such as heavy metals and radioactive substances.
Mazlin Bin Mokhtar is a Professor at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) whereby he is a Principal Fellow at the Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI). He is currently the Chairman of Environmental Quality Council Malaysia as well as Deputy Head of Cluster of Natural Resources and Environment at the National Council of Professors (MPN). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) and the Institute of Chemistry Malaysia (IKM). He is also a Senior Fellow at the Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development (JSC), Sunway University. He has been appointed as a member of the Malaysia-Thailand Joint Authority Research Cess Fund Committee, SDSN Malaysia Chapter Leadership Council; Board of Trustees WWF Malaysia; Elected Member of the UKM Senate; NSC member of the UNDP SGP GEF Malaysia; Board Member of IRDI, International Medical University (IMU). His expertise is in Environmental Chemistry and his research interest is in Sustainability Science and Governance.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Risk Analysis for Asian-Oriented, Risk-Based Watershed Management
Book Subtitle: Japan and Malaysia
Editors: Minoru Yoneda, Mazlin Mokhtar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8090-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8089-0Published: 23 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4061-1Published: 20 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8090-6Published: 07 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 196
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Environmental Management, Ecotoxicology, Environmental Health