Overview
- Won the Special Award of Presidential Scholarship Award and Outstanding Thesis Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Offers insights from a new perspective on selenium in traditional risk assessment of environmental mercury pollution at contaminated sites (and elsewhere) and related health exposure and risks
- Explores new methods for concurrently evaluating risks and/or benefits of combined mercury and selenium exposure, the underlying principle of which holds potential for use in future studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Biogeochemical Cycles of Mercury and Selenium and Their Interactions in River System
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Biogeochemical Cycles of Mercury and Selenium and Their Interactions in Soil-Rice System
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Health Risk Assessment for Human Exposure to Mercury and Selenium
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Conclusions and Prospect
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About this book
From a new perspective, namely focusing on the interaction of selenium and mercury, this thesis provides new insights into traditional research on biogeochemical cycles of mercury in soil-plant interaction and associated human exposure and risks. The subject of this thesis is both valuable and timely, providing essential information not only on selenium-mercury interaction in the soil-plant system but also on how to assess the combined benefits and risk of co-exposure to mercury and selenium. This work also sheds light on future aspects regarding prevention, remediation and risk management for environmental mercury contamination. Presenting high-quality papers published in leading international SCI journals such as Environmental Health Perspectives and Environmental Science & Technology and having been recognized with the Special Award of Presidential Scholarship Award and Excellent Doctoral Dissertations Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), this thesis offers a valuable resource for scientific communities, policy-makers and non-experts who are interested in this field.
Dr. Hua Zhang works at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Oslo, Norway.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Hua Zhang received his Ph.D degree in Environmental Geochemistry from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (former Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) and worked as a Distinguished Consultant on environmental policy at the Foreign Cooperation Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection (FECO-MEP) in China. He is now a Research Scientist at Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA). His broad research interest includes environmental policy, biogeochemistry of trace elements (mercury and selenium) and human health risk assessment. His recent interests also includes the links between contaminant cycling and topography, climate change, land types, etc., by using a wide range of methods from simulation models, monitoring and survey data analyses, field work and laboratory experiments.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Impacts of Selenium on the Biogeochemical Cycles of Mercury in Terrestrial Ecosystems in Mercury Mining Areas
Authors: Hua Zhang
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54919-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-54918-2Published: 05 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52488-6Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-54919-9Published: 17 April 2014
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 193
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Public Health, Environmental Health, Terrestrial Pollution