- Provides a comprehensive source for advancements and
contributions made in environmental transformation, transport modeling and the associated
health risk assessment topics
- Includes free downloadable application software
- Presents exposure models in a user-friendly platform
for readers to evaluate exposure of populations or individuals to contaminants
This book is intended to serve as a comprehensive source for the advancements
and contributions made in environmental transformation and transport modeling in general
and the associated health risk assessment topics in particular. The selection of the
title, “Environmental Modeling and Health Risk Analysis” stems from an ambitious
objective of providing a review of air, surface water and groundwater quality modeling
topics and linking these models with exposure and health risk analysis. Thus, the purpose
is to provide the reader with an integrated perspective on these two seemingly distant
fields. The ACTS and RISK software that is an integral part of this book include
computational platforms for all models discussed in the book. Using these two software
tools, available from http://extras.springer.com/, the models described
in the book can be readily accessed and used in classroom or professional applications as
demonstrated in the book.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Principles of Environmental Modeling
3. Conservation Principles, and Environmental Transformation and Transport
4. Air Pathway Analysis
5. Groundwater Pathway Analysis
6. Surface Water Pathway Analysis
7. Uncertainty and Variability Analysis
8. Health Risk Analysis
9. Application: Pesticide Transport in Shallow Groundwater and Environmental
Risk Assessment
APPENDIX A. Definitions of Acronyms and Abbreviations
APPENDIX B. Environmental Modeling and Exposure Analysis Terms
APPENDIX C. Definitions and Operations of the ACTS/RISK Software
APPENDIX D. MCL levels of contaminants APPENDIX E. Conversion tables and Properties of
Water
462 pages, Hardcover