Dynamics of Mercury Pollution on Regional and Global Scales : Atmospheric Processes and Human Exposures Around the World - Pirrone, Nicola; Mahaffey, Kathryn R.; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2005)
International and Regional Perspectives -- Global Mercury Production, Use and Trade -- Mercury Emissions from Anthropogenic Sources: Estimates and Measurements for Europe -- Legislation and Policy Concerning Mercury in the European Union -- The DG Research Perspective-Research on Hg Supported by the European Commission -- Perspective on Mercury: Progress Through Cooperation -- Where We Stand on Mercury Pollution and its Health Effects on Regional and Global Scales -- Monitoring and Analytical Methods -- The Monitoring and Modelling of Hg Species in Support of Local, Regional and Global Modelling -- Determination of Mercury and its Compounds in Water, Sediment, Soil and Biological Samples -- Chemical and Physical Processes -- Environmental Chamber Studies of Mercury Reactions in the Atmosphere -- Air-sea Exchange and Marine Boundary Layer Atmospheric Transformation of Hg and their Importance in the Global Mercury Cycle -- Terrestial Hg Fluxes: Is the Next Exchange Up, Down, or Neither? -- Chemical Transformation of Gaseous Elemental Hg in the Atmosphere -- Modelling Chemical and Physical Processes of Hg Compounds in the Marine Boundary Layer -- Modelling Transport and Transformation of Hg and its Compounds in Continental Air Masses -- Human Exposure -- Exposure to Mercury in the Americas -- Exposure to Hg in the General Population of Europe and the Arctic -- Methylmercury Exposure in General Populations of Japan, Asia and Oceania -- Mercury Pollution from Artisanal Gold Mining in Block B, El Callao, Bolivar State, Venezuela -- An Ecosystem Approach to Describe the Mercury Issue in Canada: From Mercury Sources to Human Health -- The GEF/UNDP/UNIDO Global Mercury Project - Environmental and Health Results from a Small-Scale Gold Mining Site in Tanzania -- Development of Programs to Monitor Methyl-Mercury Exposure and Issue Fish Consumption Advisories -- Health Effects and Risk Assessment -- Regional Case Studies -- Dynamic Processes of Atmospheric Hg in the Mediterranean Region -- Spatial and Temporal Variability of Atmospheric Hg in North-Western and Central Europe-Observations on Different Time Scale -- Atmospheric Hg: A Decade of Observations in the Great Lakes -- Recent Trends in Hg Emissions, Deposition, and Biota in the Florida Everglades: A Monitoring and Modelling Analysis -- Mercury Pollution in China - An Overview -- Mercury Pollution in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions -- EMEP Regiona/Hemispheric Mercury Modelling: Achievements and Problems.
Keywords: Pollution; Air pollution; Environmental management; Ecotoxicology; Pollution, general; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Environmental Management; Ecotoxicology