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Ecological Risks of Emerging Pollutants in Urbanizing Regions edited by Yonglong Lu, Pei Wang and Jingjing Yuan characterizes the major pollution patterns of emerging contaminants, such as sources, emission effluents, temporal and spatial distributions, multi-media transportation and transformation processes, exposure pathways to ecosystems and humans, and ecological risks. Based on this, it establishes an urbanizing region management concept and highlights how urbanization and its regional ecology have evolved into a more integrated vision. It also decouples the relations between urbanization and emissions of emerging pollutants that are framed within a broad socio-ecological context considering institutions, policies, and governance. All the theory, methods, and case studies have been taken from the authors’ publications, which have undergone rigorous international peer review. The book presents the spatial distribution, pathways, and flow diagrams of the pollutants as well as the interactions between urbanization and regional pollution and includes detailed figures and pictures. It also investigates ecological risk characterization and expression using maps based on geographic information systems to illustrate the general profile and the spatial variation of risks. The book is a valuable resource for postgraduates, researchers, academics, environmental NGOs, and regional managers such as urban planners, environmental agency staff, legal regulators, and decision makers. Bridging the gap between environmental science and policy, it offers interdisciplinary theory, approaches, and case studies that facilitate applications of frontier science in ecology and environmental science to regional social and economic development.
Environmental Exposure of Emerging Pollutants in Urbanizing Regions
Pei Wang, Yonglong Lu, Tieyu Wang, Jing Meng and Yueqing Zhang
Source Identification and Emission Estimation of Emerging Pollutants
Shuangwei Xie and Yonglong Lu
Environmental Pathways of Emerging Pollutants
Zhaoyang Liu, Jing Meng and Yonglong Lu
Multimedia Modeling of the Fate for Emerging Pollutants
Shuai Song, Shijie Liu, Chao Su and Yonglong Lu
Ecological Risk Assessment of Emerging Pollutants: Methodology and Application
Yajuan Shi, Yonglong Lu, Meng Zhang, Chao Su, Yueqing Zhang and Andrew C. Johnson
Evaluating the Comprehensive Effects of PFAAs Emited from the Fluorochemical Industry
Pei Wang, Zhaoyang Liu, Hongqiao Su and Yonglong Lu
Environmental Health Policy Implications and Future Perspectives
Yonglong Lu, Jingjing Yuan and Guizhen He