Author: Bhaskar Nath
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: stressors, sectors, compartments, volume, management, practice, environmental
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999-03
List price: $420.00
ISBN-10: 041514907X
ISBN-13: 9780415149075

Volume 2: Compartments, Stressors and Sectors, deals with the problems that occur in the three ’compartments’ of the environment, namely air, water and soil. The contributors also address the socio-economic sectors of industry, traffic, energy, agriculture and tourism.

Author: Jürgen Fuchs
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: disease, oxidative, stress, health, stressors, environmental
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2001-07-15
List price: $259.95
ISBN-10: 0824705300
ISBN-13: 9780824705305

J.W. Goethe Univ., Frankfurt, Germany. Reviews issues of molecular and cell biology, as well as clinical aspects of the complex effects of environmental stressors and free radicals on the body. Begins at the molecular and cellular level, proceeding to examine the eye, skin, and lung as separate target organs. For researchers.

Author: Don R. Catherall
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: stress, psychosocial, series, routledge, trauma, interventions, family, stressors
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-12-03
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0415949637
ISBN-13: 9780415949637

Aimed at practitioners working with couples and families dealing with the impact of a traumatic/stressful event, this text provides a hands-on, practical guide that deals with how to respond appropriately to a wide range of specific stressors.

Authors:Carmel Mothersill, Irma Mosse, Colin Seymour,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: security, peace, series, environmental, science, nato, stressors, challenge, future, multiple
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2007-08-17
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 1402063342
ISBN-13: 9781402063343

This workshop proceedings aims to address the complex issue of multiple stressors (pollutants) in the environment. This is becoming a major issue now that virtually every region of the world is polluted. This is true even of "pristine" arctic environments where there are no humans, because chemicals and radiation circulate globally, do not respect international boundaries and accumulate in animals, plants and soils everywhere. There are huge problems, both scientific and politico-legal in managing multiple pollution. These range from issues with identifying cause in the legal sense, when cause

Authors:Gerassimos Arapis, Nadezhda Goncharova, Philippe Bav
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: security, science, series, environmental, nato, stressors, ecological, risk, assessment, multiple, ecotoxicology
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 2006-02-27
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 1402044755
ISBN-13: 9781402044755

The interaction between environment and health is far more complex than is commonly understood. In particular, little attention has been paid to the interaction of different pollutants in the human body as well as in the environment. Even low level exposure over a period of time to a complex cocktail of pollutants in air, water, food and consumer products is likely to contribute significantly to the health status of European citizens. The present book represents new knowlege both human and environmental risk assessment procedures and although it is generally acknowledged that chemical, biologi

Authors:Igor Linkov, Elizabeth A. Ferguson, Victor S. Magar,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: security, science, nato, peace, stressors, series, environmental, emerging, deliberative, time, decision, making, application, real
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2008-10-14
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 1402090250
ISBN-13: 9781402090257

Decision-making tools are needed to support environmental management in an increasingly global economy. Addressing threats and identifying actions to mitigate those threats necessitates an understanding of the basic risk assessment paradigm and the tools of risk analysis to assess, interpret, and communicate risks. It also requires modification of the risk paradigm itself to incorporate a complex array of quantitative and qualitative information that shapes the unique political and ecological challenges of different countries and regions around the world. This book builds a foundation to chara

Authors:J.m. Storey, K.b. Storey,
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: volume, responses, molecular, stress, cell, stressors, environmental, gene
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-08-14
List price: $235.00
ISBN-10: 0444504885
ISBN-13: 9780444504883

Cell and Molecular Responses to Stress is a new multi-volume book series from Elsevier Science that focuses on how organisms respond at a molecular level to environmental stresses imposed upon them. All organisms deal with variations in multiple environmental factors including temperature, oxygen, salinity, and water availability. Many show amazing tolerances to extreme stress with remarkable biochemical adaptations that allow life to persist under very difficult circumstances. This series explores the molecular mechanisms by which cells and organisms respond to stress, focusing on the variat