Marine Radioecology, Volume 6 Jean-claude Amiard by Jean-claude Amiard 9781786307798, 1786307790 instant download after payment.

From the preface: "The marine environment is home to a large number of marine species. Moreover,
as the marine environment is the domain where life on planet earth appeared, the
number of taxonomic classes present is considerably greater than in others. This
considerable marine biodiversity, associated with numerous ecosystems and the
complexity of food webs, explains the great stability of this environment. It is also a
current and future source for humans, both from the point of view of food and from
the point of view of biomolecules of various interests (nutritional, therapeutic,
diagnostic, anti-cancer and anti-viral, antioxidants, etc.).
However, the marine environment is the final repository of a large number of
forms of physical, chemical and biological pollution that negatively affect marine
life. The chemical pollution of rivers and oceans has become for the public an
unavoidable subject, because it is measured in thousands of tons discharged per day.
It overshadows all other forms of pollution which are more modest, but which also
raise questions of concern. Among the latter, radioactive pollution is not negligible.
Radioecology, a scientific discipline born in the middle of the 20th century, has
two objectives, the estimation of the fate of radionuclides in the environment and the
evaluation of their radioactive risk for living organisms. This discipline is relevant to
all the earth’s environments.
The design of this book follows the classical approach to risk estimation, which
is divided into four steps: hazard identification, hazard exposure assessment, hazard
characterization or effects assessment and risk characterization."