Elsevier Emerging Contaminants in the Terrestrial-Aquatic-Atmosphere Continuum: Occurrence, Health Risks and Mitigation

Emerging Contaminants in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments: Occurrence, Health Risks, and Mitigation provides the latest information on the synthesis of the occurrence, behavior, human health risks and mitigation of emerging contaminants in developing countries. First highlighting sources, industrial applications, key drivers and regulatory frameworks, the book then goes on to discuss the nature of emerging contaminants, including organic (e.g., pharmaceuticals), inorganic (e.g., rare earth elements) and biological agents (e.g., antimicrobial resistance). It then presents the dissemination, environmental behavior, and fate in terrestrial and aquatic systems as well as the human and ecological exposure pathways, health risks, and more. Offering a transdisciplinary approach that brings together perspectives and contributions from experts in environmental sciences, hydrology, environmental engineering, ecotoxicology, chemistry, material sciences, and legal and policy aspects, the book provides an approachable and flexible resource for researchers and upper-level students with diverse academic backgrounds. Review Presents a synthesis of the occurrence, behavior, human health risks and mitigation of emerging contaminants, focusing on developing countries From the Back Cover <p><i>Emerging Contaminants in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments: Occurrence, Health Risks and Mitigation </i>is the first to present a synthesis of the occurrence, behaviour, human health risks and mitigation of emerging contaminants in developing countries. First highlighting the nature, sources, industrial applications, key drivers, and regulatory frameworks pertaining to emerging contaminants in developing countries the book goes on to discuss the nature of emerging contaminants, including organic (e.g., pharmaceuticals), inorganic (e.g., rare earth elements) and biological agents (e.g., antimicrobial resistance. It then presents the dissemination, environmental behavior, and fate in terrestrial and aquatic systems as well as the human and ecological exposure pathways and health risks, including ecotoxicology and health risk assessments. Then, conventional water and wastewater processes for both centralized and decentralized systems for the removal of emerging contaminants are discussed. Moreover, emerging and advanced methods, which are currently less used in developing countries are presented, including their prospects and limitations. Finally, future perspectives, including research needs, are highlighted.</p> <p>Offering a transdisciplinary approach, bringing together perspectives and contributions from experts in environmental sciences, hydrology, environmental engineering, ecotoxicology, chemistry, material sciences, and legal and policy aspects Emerging Contaminants in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments offers an approachable and flexible resource for researchers and upper-level students with diverse academic backgrounds.</p> About the Author Dr. Willis Gwenzi is a Professor of Biosystems and Environmental Engineering at the University of Zimbabwe. He researches on environmental remediation, environmental hydrology, water/wastewater treatment, emerging contaminants, antibiotic resistance, medical geology, environmental epidemiology, and novel (bio)materials. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles. His seminal papers on biochar-based water treatment systems, and high-technology rare earth elements as emerging contaminants have been rated as Highly Cited and Hot papers in 2019 by Web of Science. He has supervised several postgraduate students in bio-environmental system engineering. He is regular manuscript reviewer for top international journals. He has also acted as an external reviewer for grant proposals for UK’s NERC, Canada’s MITACS, Chile’s FONDECYT, and the Austrian Science Foundation. Willis holds the following qualifications: (1) PhD (Biosystems and Environmental E