From Sources to Solution

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Enterococci Concentrations in Tropical Coastal Beaches in Malaysia Correlate Better With Pathogen Levels and Other Water Quality Indicators than Faecal Coliforms

   • Asmat Ahmad, Ayokunle Christopher Dada, Gires Usup, Heng Lee Yook

   Pages 1-6

3. An Application of Artificial Neural Networks for the Prediction of Surface Ozone Concentrations in Malaysia

   • Negar Banan, Mohd Talib Latif, Liew Juneng, Md. Firoz Khan

   Pages 7-12

4. Exposure to Indoor PM10 and Volatile Organic Compounds and Its Association with Respiratory Health Among Preschool Children from Urban and Rural Areas in Selangor

   • Nur Arasyi Yahaya, Juliana Jalaludin

   Pages 13-16

5. Environmental Geochemical Cycles of Persistent Toxic Substances and Emerging Chemicals of Concern

   • Ming-Hung Wong

   Pages 17-21

6. Nitrogen Release Properties of Urea–Kaolinite Controlled Release Fertilizer with Chitosan Binder

   • Bita Roshanravan, Fariba Mahdavi, Suraya Abdul Rashid

   Pages 23-27

7. Stability Studies of Reactive Black 5 (RB5) Dye Standard Solution in Various Conditions Using UV–VIS Spectrophotometry

   • Nur Syamimi Zainudin, Mohamad Hadzri Yaacob, Noor Zuhartini Md Muslim

   Pages 29-32

8. Cathodic Stripping Voltammetry (CSV) Analysis of Reactive Black 5 (RB5) Dye Using Hanging Mercury Electrode (HMDE) in Basic Medium

   • Mohamad Hadzri Yaacob, Nursyamimi Zainudin, Noor Zuhartini Md. Muslim

   Pages 33-36

9. Biomonitoring of Trace Elements Using Epiphytic Lichens Collected in a Suburban Area of Selangor, Malaysia

   • Boon Siong Wee, Shakirah Abd Shukor, Ahmad Firdaus Khaidir, Mohd Suhaimi Hamzah, Shamsiah Abdul Rahman, Md Suhaimi Elias et al.

   Pages 37-41

10. Seasonal Variation of Aliphatic Hydrocarbons in Atmospheric Environment of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah

    • Mahyar Sakari, Jupri Bin Mohd Bani, Zhi Yang Soon, Sohail Rafiq, Justin Sentian

    Pages 43-48

11. Occurrence and Dietary Intake of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins and Dibenzofurans in Malaysia

    • Yin-Hui Leong, Pui-Nyuk Chiang, Hajjaj Juharullah Jaafar, Chee-Yuen Gan, Mohamed Isa Abdul Majid

    Pages 49-53

12. Environmental Forensics on Appropriate-Technology-Enhanced Supply Chain of Rural Commodities

    • Corinthias Pamatang Morgana Sianipar, Gatot Yudoko, Kiyoshi Dowaki

    Pages 55-60

13. Hazardous Waste Management in Malaysia: The Needs of Environmental Forensic

    • Norhazni Mat Sari, Mazlin Bin Mokhtar

    Pages 61-66

14. Polychlorinated Biphenyl Contamination to the Canadian Arctic from Landfills and Sewage Treatment Outlets

    • Narayanan Kannan, Senthil Kumar Kuruthachalam, Monica Danon-Schaffer, Won Joon Shim

    Pages 67-71

15. Exploring the Relationship Among Issues on Awareness in Practicing Waste Minimization (Malaysia)

    • Shadi Kafi Mallak, Mohd Bakri Ishak, Sabrina Abdullah

    Pages 73-76

16. Potential Health Risk Assessment of Urban Soil on Heavy Metal Content in Seri Kembangan

    • Sarva Mangala Praveena, Nurul Syazwani Yuswir, Ahmad Zaharin Aris, Zailina Hashim

    Pages 77-81

17. Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metal Exposure to Classroom Dust in Primary School, Serdang (Malaysia)

    • Sarva Mangala Praveena, Sarah Abdul Mutalib, Nurul Hafiza Razak, Emilia Zainal Abidin, Ahmad Zaharin Aris

    Pages 83-87

18. Does Trade in Industrial Products have the Potential to Improve Distribution of Global Virtual Water?

    • Mohd Yusof Saari, Azman Hassan, Tengku Hanidza Tengku Ismail, Nila Fakhriah Fahrur Razi

    Pages 89-93

19. Spatial Variation and Source Distribution of Organic Contaminants in Langat River Basin, Malaysia Using Chemometric Techniques

    • Mohamad Rafaie Mohamed Zubir, Rozita Osman, Norashikin Saim

    Pages 95-99

20. Acute and Chronic Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) for Pharmaceuticals in South East Asia

    • Eugenie Sin Sing Tan, Najat Al-Odaini

    Pages 101-106

Featuring the theme, From Sources to Solution, this book is based on the research papers presented during the International Conference on Environmental Forensics 2013. It covers multi-disciplinary areas of environmental forensics featuring major themes: characterization, assessment, and monitoring; new approach, rapid assessment, and analytical techniques; pollution control technology; environmental health risk assessment; and policy, governance and management. It present information for researchers from the science and social sciences disciplines and contribute to the advancement of Environmental Forensics. It also aims at evaluating the environmental damages as the result of indiscriminating discharge of toxic environmental pollutants.

• Emerging Pollutants
• Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
• Environmental Forensics
• Environmental Health Risk Assessment
• Environmental Management
• Hazardous Waste Management
• Microbial Source Tracking
• Pollution Control Technology
• Toxic Environmental Pollutants
• Water Management
• ecotoxicology

• Environmental Forensics Research Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

  A.Z. Aris, A.M. Abdullah

• Department of Environmental Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

  T.H. Tengku Ismail

• Department of Environmental Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

  R. Harun, M.Y. Ishak

Dr. Ahmad Zaharin Aris is an Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He is currently the Head of Environmental Forensics Research Centre at UPM. He received his PhD from Universiti Malaysia Sabah in the area of hydrogeochemistry. His primary research areas are heavy metal toxicities in the environment and geochemistry modeling using the PHREEQC. He is also actively working in the area of hydrochemistry, environmental analysis, and environmental chemistry. He has several joint projects with various international institutions, such as, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science-Asian Core Program (JSPS-ACORE). He was also a member of scientific committee to various international conferences and professional organizations (The Geological Society of London and Young Scientist Network-Academy Sciences of Malaysia) and currently serves as editorial board members for several citation indexed journals.

Ms. Tengku Hanidza Tengku Ismail is a senior lecturer at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia. She graduated from the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA, with Master of Science in Community Health. Her research areas include human exposure assessment, pesticide exposure, environmental health risk assessment, and public health. She is currently the expert panel (on public health and health impact assessment) on the Review Panel for the Environmental Impact Assessment Report under the Department of Environment Malaysia. She also has vast experience on developing Environmental Education Modules for schools in Malaysia.

Ms. Rosta Harun is a senior lecturer and head of academic advisor at the Department of Environmental Management and formerly was the head of Indigenous Knowledge and Local Community Laboratory at Rainforest Academy, Universiti PutraMalaysia. She holds a BSc and MSc from Ohio University, USA and DEA from Universite de Bourgogne, France. Her research interest is mainly on social effects and environmental ethics. She has been working on environmental values of indigenous and local communities in Malaysia. As a certified facilitator she incorporates facilitation into her work and has also been engaged to facilitate for international and local organizations such as European union, Asian Development Bank (ADB), WWF, Bayer Co. (Malaysia). Rosta has experience in developing modules for Environmental Education and currently involved in developing Geography Curriculum for Secondary schools in Malaysia. She is also a certified life and performance coach.

Dr. Ahmad Makmom Abdullah is an Associate Professor, Deputy Dean (Academic and Student Affair) at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He has 15 years of experience in teaching, research and extension. His research area includes the effects of air pollution on plants, plant ecophysiology and air pollution modeling using mesoscale CMAQ integrated model. He has several collaborative work with international institutions: Wageningen UR, The Netherlands and Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) on chicken manure treatment in the Asia Pro Eco Project; and with the Japanese counterparts from NIES, Kyoto University, Yokohama University, FPPRI Japan, on tropical forest regeneration dynamic. During these collaborations, he was involved in organizing International Conferences and workshops. He is currently the expert panel (on air pollution) on the Review Panel for the Environmental Impact Assessment Report under the Department of Environment Malaysia.

Dr. Mohd Yusoff Ishak is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Environmental Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia. An ecologist by training, he received his PhD from The University of Adelaide, Australia in tropical lakes ecosystemmodelling using the Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm model in 2012. His research interest is in aquatic resources management by means of ecological and hydrological models. He also works on the tropical freshwater lake and wetlands sustainability and habitat enhancement. He is a member of international scientific community such as the Society of Wetland Scientists and Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO).

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