1st Edition

Methods in Environmental Forensics

Edited By Stephen M. Mudge Copyright 2009
404 Pages 86 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

408 Pages
by CRC Press

While environmental catastrophes can be naturally occurring, often they are the result of criminal intent or malfeasance. Sorting out the details when the land itself is the only witness requires a special set of investigative skills. For accountability to be established, investigators must be able to answer these questions with a measure of scientific certainty: How and when did the... Read more
Approaching Environmental Forensics
S. M. Mudge
Radionuclides in the Environment: Tracers
and Dating
D. Assinder
Chemical Fingerprinting of Petroleum
Hydrocarbons
Z. Wang and C. Brown
Biomarkers and Stable Isotopes in Environmental
Forensic Studies
R. P. Philp and T. Kuder
Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Analysis in
Water, Sediments, and Soils and Its Application
in Environmental Forensics
C. Bravo-Linares and S. M. Mudge
Application of Molecular Microbiology to
Environmental Forensics
A. S. Ball, J. N. Pretty,
R. Mahmud, and E. Adetutu
Biological Communities as a Forensic Tool in
Marine Environments
A. Borja and I. Muxika
Normalisation Techniques in the Forensic
Assessment of Contaminated Environments
G. F. Birch, A.T. Russell,
and S. M. Mudge
Multivariate and Geostatistical Methods in
Environmental Forensics
S. M. Mudge
Identification of Air Pollution Sources via
Modelling Techniques
I. Colbeck
Evidence and Expert Witnesses in Environmental
Forensics Cases
A. Kanner
Index

Biography

Stephen M. Mudge