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Environmental Compartments

Equilibria and Assessment of Processes Between Air, Water, Sediments and Biota

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Egbert K. Duursma

    1. Res. Les Marguerites, La Turbie, France

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  2. JoLynn Carroll

    1. Marine Environment Laboratory, Internationale Atomic Energy Agency, Monaco

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Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)

Part of the book sub series: Environmental Science (ENVSCIENCE)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Introduction

    • Egbert K. Duursma, JoLynn Carroll
    Pages 1-1

  3. Processes and equilibria between compartments

    • Egbert K. Duursma, JoLynn Carroll
    Pages 2-36

  4. Complexing metal- and radionuclide-sediment reactions

    • Egbert K. Duursma, JoLynn Carroll
    Pages 37-63

  5. Diffusion principles

    • Egbert K. Duursma, JoLynn Carroll
    Pages 64-83

  6. Organochlorines

    • Egbert K. Duursma, JoLynn Carroll
    Pages 84-114

  7. Competitive reactions and effects of conservativity

    • Egbert K. Duursma, JoLynn Carroll
    Pages 115-133

  8. Examples of distribution patterns in estuaries and seas

    • Egbert K. Duursma, JoLynn Carroll
    Pages 134-160

  9. Nuclear waste in the Kara Sea

    • Egbert K. Duursma, JoLynn Carroll
    Pages 161-198

  10. Global oceanic and atmospheric stability of oxygen

    • Egbert K. Duursma, JoLynn Carroll
    Pages 199-224

  11. Case studies on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

    • Egbert K. Duursma, JoLynn Carroll
    Pages 225-236

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 237-279
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Any concentration of a substance measured in a living or non-living system results from its distribution among all of the environmental compartments: air, water, sediments, and biota. The transfer of a substance from one compartment to another is regulated by physical forces and the chemical properties of the substance and also those of the compartments. When transfer processes are nearly constant in time, a substance will achieve predictable equilibria distributions. It is of utmost importance that students, environmental scientists, and policymakers understand the basic processes which control the distribution of a substance in order to interpret measurements obtained from within a limited number of compartments.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Res. Les Marguerites, La Turbie, France

    Egbert K. Duursma

  • Marine Environment Laboratory, Internationale Atomic Energy Agency, Monaco

    JoLynn Carroll

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