Observed inequality in urban greenspace exposure in China.

abstract：:The impact of marine pollution was estimated from seven stations of Kuwait coastal waters. The mean concentrations of all trace metals in seawater (0.07-7.04 microg/l) and in phytoplankton (14.90-52.01 microg/g) revealed less phytoplankton abundance in Stations IV VI during the four seasons. However, a relative surge ...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Bu-Olayan AH,Al-Hassan R,Thomas BV,Subrahmanyam MN

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Pb, Ni, Cr, Cd, and Ag were determined in the brown alga Fucus vesiculosus and intertidal surface sediments from coastal locations of northeast England. Levels of heavy metals similar to those of polluted areas of the British coastline were detected. There is evidence of contaminat...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Giusti L

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth modifications caused by various concentrations of atrazine and nicosulfuron were monitored in closed and continuous culture of Chlorella vulgaris (chlorophyta), Navicula accommoda (diatomophyta), and Oscillatoria limnetica (cyanophyta). The concentration at which algal growth rate was reduced twofold (EC50) was...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Leboulanger C,Rimet F,de Lacotte M,Bérard A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the long-term impact of persistent organic contaminants such as polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) it is important to be able to quantify historical exposure. An understanding of past exposure is not only important to place our current body burdens in persp...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Sweetman AJ,Alcock RE,Wittsiepe J,Jones KC

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations of polychlorinaxed dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/F) in surface sediment, soil, human hair, and fish muscle from Ya-Er Lake area, China, were analyzed. The results showed that there were very high concentrations of PCDD/F existing in these samples. The results also indicated that Ya-Er La...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Wu WZ,Xu Y,Schramm KW,Kettrup A

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acid-forming potential of lead/zinc (Pb/Zn) mine tailings at Lechang City of Guangdong Province was studied using both net acid generation (NAG) and acid-base accounting (ABA) methods. The pyritic and total sulfur contents of the tailings were 12.6% and 18.7%, respectively. The mean acid neutralization capacity (A...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Shu WS,Ye ZH,Lan CY,Zhang ZQ,Wong MH

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A portion of all herbicides applied to forests, croplands, road sides, and gardens are inevitably lost to water bodies either directly through runoff or indirectly by leaching through groundwater into ephemeral streams and lakes. Once in the aquatic environment, herbicides may cause stress within aquatic communities a...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Graymore M,Stagnitti F,Allinson G

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods, standards, and regulations that are aimed to reduce indoor air pollution from building materials are critically reviewed. These are classified as content control and emission control. Methods and standards can be found in both of these two classes. In the regulation domain, only content control is enforced in...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Niu JL,Burnett J

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A decree on radiation safety and protection have been signed by the Federal Government of Nigeria that established a regulatory body to control the importation, application, transportation and disposal of radioactive materials in the environment. The fundamental function of the body is embodied on radiation protection...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Jibiri NN

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biokinetics of 134Cs and 241Am in mussel species contaminated through water pathway has been studied under laboratory conditions. At equilibrium, the concentration factors for 134Cs and 241Am in small and large mussels were 2.80 and 2.57 and 200 and 150, respectively. The concentration factor of 134Cs in soft part...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Güngör N,Tuğrul B,Topcuoğlu S,Güngör E

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method is described for calculating radiation doses to benthic invertebrates from radionuclide concentrations in freshwater sediment. Both internal and external radiation doses were estimated for all 14 principal radionuclides of the uranium-238 decay series. Sediments were collected from three sites downstream ...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Thomas P,Liber K

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sustainability is not a new concept but rather a prominent concept at the present time. Researchers have categorized sustainability indicators into economic, social, and ecological aspects. Sustainability of agriculture in the context of development efforts has to meet production efficiency, resilience of ecosystems, ...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Praneetvatakul S,Janekarnkij P,Potchanasin C,Prayoonwong K

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As savannas are widespread across northern Australia and provide northern rangelands, the sustainable use of this landscape is crucial. Both fire and grazing are known to influence the tree-grass character of tropical savannas. Frequent fires open up the tree layer and change the ground layer from perennials to that d...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Liedloff AC,Coughenour MB,Ludwig JA,Dyer R

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses the application of genetic algorithms to the construction of rule-based models. Water quality time series will be explored to extract predictive rules for algal blooms in freshwater lakes. The hypertrophic Japanese Lake Kasumigaura is used to demonstrate the technique. ...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Bobbin J,Recknagel F

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contrasting effects of the dilution of indoor generated pollutants and the energy efficiency of heating and ventilating air conditioning systems (HVAC) for indoor air quality (IAQ) and thermal comfort were studied for 10 Kuwaiti residences. The levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and the calculated cooling loa...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Elkilani A,Bouhamra W

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Settled indoor dust was collected from a university building, and the fine fraction was heated in the temperature range of 50-250 degrees C. Emissions of compounds were analysed and identified in a system consisting of a thermal desorption unit coupled to a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS). The heating took...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Pedersen EK,Bjørseth O,Syversen T,Mathiesen M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need to compare potential health risks to the public associated with different activities that can result in releases of hazardous substances to the environment is becoming increasingly important in decision-making. In making such comparisons, it is desirable to use equivalent indicators of potential health risks ...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Kocher DC,Greim H

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to assess site-specific carcinogenic risks of incinerator-emitted dioxins and risk transfers among the areas covered by nine municipal incinerators in Taiwan. We used actual emission data and the industrial source complex short-term model (ISCST3) to determine the dioxin impact areas wi...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Ma HW,Lai YL,Chan CC

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overall objective of this research was to monitor the uptake kinetics of lead in an amphibian model and correlate metal content with embryo development. Based upon the concentration of lead found in the water and sediment of a Louisiana swamp adjacent to a Superfund site, a controlled laboratory experiment explori...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Berzins DW,Bundy KJ

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specimens of the limpet Patella aspera were collected from a clean, coastal marine site and a contaminated estuary on the south coast of Portugal. The shells were analysed individually for their minor (Mg, Sr) and trace element (Fe, Mn, Zn) content. Mean concentrations of these elements in the shell of P. aspera were ...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Cravo A,Foster P,Bebianno MJ

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exhaled ammonia (NH3ex) was measured by chemiluminescence in a group of healthy children (n = 20) and in two groups of asthmatic children, one (Group 1) residing in a National Park in the mountains (n = 68) and other (Group 2) in an urban area (n = 52). We also determined urinary ammonia, nitrates, urea, sodium and po...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Giroux M,Brémont F,Salles JP,Rey E,Della Massa JP,Ferrières J

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psidium guajava L., Psidium cattleyanum Sabine and Mangifera indica L. were tested under field conditions as possible tropical bioindicators of industrial air pollution. The study was performed around the industrial complex of Cubatão, SE Brazil, which comprises 23 industries, including fertilizer, cement, chemical, p...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Moraes RM,Klumpp A,Furlan CM,Klumpp G,Domingos M,Rinaldi MC,Modesto IF

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As far as the impact of air pollutants on human health being is concerned, ozone (O3) is one of the most pollutant sources, and, in particular, the ground level ozone is responsible for a variety of adverse effects on both human being and plant life. To protect the population from such adverse health effects, early in...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Lu W,Wang X,Wang W,Leung AY,Yuen K

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk assessment is a new research area. The risk assessment research area deals with a wide range of issues other than landfills. Examples of these issues are Radiation, Food Industry, Ecology, Epidemiology, etc. The authors have found that there are generic elements in risk assessment and these elements are independe...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Butt TE,Oduyemi KO

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of Cracow's urban pollution on small forest ecosystems was studied during 1998-2000. Seven sites located at different distances from the Cracow conurbation and from busy road were selected. Two sites were situated 26 and 31 km from Cracow town along an eastern transect, the other five-3, 8, 14, 26 and 35...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Sawicka-Kapusta K,Zakrzewska M,Bajorek K,Gdula-Argasińska J

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a new approach to interpretation of results of the simple microbial biomass and respiration measurements in the soil microbiology is proposed. The principle is based on eight basal and derived microbial parameters, which are standardized and then plotted into sunray plots. The output is visual presentat...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Hofman J,Bezchlebová J,Dusek L,Dolezal L,Holoubek I,Andel P,Ansorgová A,Malý S

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of solar radiation and temperature on bacterial die-off rates in Black Sea coastal waters using total coliform as the indicator organism were studied. Coliform die-off experiments were carried out in seawater samples collected along the coastline. The experiments were conducted in beakers filled with seawa...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Yukselen MA,Calli B,Gokyay O,Saatci A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Workable pollution abatement policies and effective legislation must be based on sound science. However, despite many years of research, there are still uncertainties about the effects of atmospheric nitrogen compounds on crops and other vegetation. This paper reviews the current state of knowledge of the main compoun...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Davison AW,Cape JN

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our challenge was to address future directions in air quality research that involve economic issues. The paper outlines the role of economics in the evaluation of air pollution impacts on environmental systems and describes existing research. We identify studies that address economic effects in the agricultural sector...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Adams RM,Horst RL

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human health vulnerabilities to ecosystem degradation are well documented. Destabilization of natural ecosystems and the biosphere have posed an entirely new set of risks to human health and preclude any simple extrapolations from the past. Newly emerging diseases, increasing prevalence of many vector borne diseases, ...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Rapport DJ,Howard J,Lannigan R,McCauley W

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00