PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CONTAMINATION (PART I)

Table of Contents

1. Index
2. UNIT 1 - General principles
3. UNIT 2 - Main sources of environmental contamination
   1. Introduction
   2. Main sources of contaminants in the environment
   3. Major types of pollution
4. UNIT 3 - Air Pollution
5. Unit 4 - Water and soil Pollution
6. Glossary of key terms associated with environmental toxicology

Major types of pollution

The major types of pollution are:

• Air Pollution
• Water Pollution
• Soil Pollution

The videos below illustrate the different types of pollution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP3pbh_-pu8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAbOVeKYgjU

Information on air, water and soil pollution can be found in the following chapters (units 3 and 4).

REFERENCES

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Lester JN, Birkett JW. (1999). Microbiology and Chemistry for Environmental Scientists and Engineers. 2nd edition. E & FN Spon, London. 386p.

Stelljes ME. (2008). Toxicology for Non-toxicologists. 2nd edition. The Scarecrow Press, Inc, Lanham, Maryland, USA. 207p.

Yu M-H. (2001). Environmental Toxicology. Impacts of environmental toxicants on living systems. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida. 257p.

Online resources:

NOAA (2015). Contaminants in the Environment. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. United States Department of Commerce. Available at:  http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/observations/contam/

USGS (1998). Environmental contaminants. In: Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources, Volume 1. 946p. Available at:  www.nwrc.usgs.gov/sandt/Contam.pdf