Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Professor R. M. Harrison, University of Birmingham, UK
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7: Contaminated Land and its Reclamation
8: Air Quality Management
9: Risk Assessment and Risk Management
10: Air Pollution and Health
11: Environmental Impact of Power Generation
12: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
13: Chemistry in the Marine Environment
14: Causes and Environmental Implications of Increased UV-B Radiation
15: Food Safety and Food Quality
16: Assessment and Reclamation of Contaminated Land
17: Global Environmental Change
18: Environmental and Health Impact of Solid Waste Management Activities
19: Sustainability and Environmental Impact of Renewable Energy Sources
20: Transport and the Environment
21: Sustainability in Agriculture
22: Chemicals in the Environment: Assessing and Managing Risk
23: Alternatives to Animal Testing
24: Nanotechnology
25: Biodiversity Under Threat
26: Environmental Forensics
27: Electronic Waste Management
28: Air Quality in Urban Environments
29: Carbon Capture
30: Ecosystem Services
31: Sustainable Water
32: Nuclear Power and the Environment
33: Marine Pollution and Human Health
34: Environmental Impacts of Modern Agriculture
35: Soils and Food Security
36: Chemical Alternatives Assessments
37: Waste as a Resource
38: Geoengineering of the Climate System
39: Fracking
40: Still Only One Earth: Progress in the 40 Years Since the First UN Conference on the Environment
41: Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
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ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
EDITORS: R.E. HESTER AND R.M. HARRISON
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Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
Issues in Environmental Science and Technology No. 41
Print ISBN: 978-1-78262-189-8
PDF eISBN: 978-1-78262-234-5
ISSN 1350-7583
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