1st Edition

Heavy Metals in the Environment Using Wetlands for Their Removal

Edited By Howard T. Odum Copyright 2000
344 Pages
by CRC Press

340 Pages
by CRC Press

344 Pages
by CRC Press

Much of the convenience of modern life resides in sheet metal, the cowling shield of most machines and appliances. However, the load that this takes off human shoulders has to be carried elsewhere, and the Earth has borne the burden. Many of us woke up to the environmental cost when over a century of industrialization finally surpassed the capacity of nature to assimilate it. International in... Read more
Contents
Introduction and Background. Lead in a Cypress-Gum Swamp, Jackson County, Florida. Lead and Wetlands in Poland. Value and Policy. Appendices. References.

Biography

Howard T. Odum, Wlodzimierz Wójcik, Lowell Pritchard, Shanshin Ton, Joseph J. Delfino, Malgorzata Wójcik, Slawomir Leszczynski, Jay D. Patel , Steven J. Doherty, Jacek Stasik