Beschreibung:
This up-to-the-minute account examines how radionuclides affect human health. It explores how radionuclides travel through various food chains and how they are transported throughout the terrestrial and aquatic environments.
This up-to-the-minute account examines how radionuclides affect human health. It explores how radionuclides travel through various food chains and how they are transported throughout the terrestrial and aquatic environments.
Partial table of contents:Physical Transport and Chemical and Biological Processes inAgricultural Systems (G. Voigt).Radioactive Contamination of the Marine Environment (A.Aarkrog).Roles of Micro-Organisms in the Environmental Fate ofRadionuclides (G. Gadd).Interactions with Human Nutrition and Other Indices ofPopulation Health (A. Cigna).Biological Effects of Prenatal Irradiation (C. Streffer).Late Somatic Health Effects (H. Paretzke).Cytogenetic Effects as Quantitative Indicators of RadiationExposure (M. Bauchinger).Mental Health, Stress and Risk Perception: Insights fromPsychological Research (O. Renn).Indexes.