Multiple Stressors

by Mothersill, Carmel; Mosse, Irma; Seymour, Colin

• ISBN13: 9781402063343
• ISBN10: 1402063342
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

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 may be multifactorial, to issues with understanding the subtle interplay of pollutants at the biological level. The scope of the workshop was therefore very wide and multiple disciplines were represented, including economists, lawyers, and ethicists in addition to scientists. Among the scientists, there was a careful blend of those dealing with the practical problems on the ground, and the more theoretical people who want to understand the mechanisms of interactions between various pollutants especially when all are by themselves present at sub-toxic concentrations. The aim of the workshop was to try to identify the issues and to propose a way forward which could at least start to address the issues in a logical way.

Table of Contents

Preface

Multiple Stressors: General Overviews. Challenges in Radioecotoxicology

The Involvement of Pollution with Fish Health

Effects of Ionizing Radiation combined with other Stressors, on Non-Human Biota

Ecotoxicology - how to assess the Impact of Toxicants in a Multi-Factorial Environment

A Layperson's Primer on Multiple Stressors

Multiple Exposure Data: What Responses are seen? Effects of Multipollutant Exposures on Plant Populations

Methodology of Socio-ecological Monitoring using Cytogenetic Methods

Role of Genetic Susceptibility in Environmental Exposure Induced Diseases

Multiple Stressor Data: Longterm Effects

Post-Radiated and Post-Stressed Volatile Secretions: Secondary Immune and Behavioral Reactions in Groups of Animals

Radiation Induced Genomic Instability in the Offspring of Irradiated Parents

Evolution Processes in Populations of Plaintain Growing around Radiation Sources

Changes in Plant Genotypes Resulting from Bystander Effects and chromosomal Instability

Clastogenic Factors, Bystander Effects and Genomic Instability in Vivo

Multiple Stressors: Mechanisms

Multidisciplinary Aspects of Regulatory Systems relevant to Multiple Stressors: Aging, Xenobiotics and Radiation

Genetic Aspects of pollutant Accumulation in Plants

Radiation Risks in the Context of multiple Stressors in the Environment - Issues for Consideration

Protection by Chemicals against Radiation-Induced Bystander Effects

Considerations for proteomic Biomarkers in Rainbow trout Ecotoxicology

Genetic Effects of combined Action of some Chemicals and ionizing Radiation in Animals and human Cells

Cytogenetic Biomarkers for Exposure to multiple Stressors

Redox Proteomics - a Route to the Identification of damaged Proteins

Exposure Assessment to Radionuclides Transfer in Food Chain

Radiation, oxidative Stress and Senescence

Sensitivity of Irradiated Animals to Infection

Multiple Stressors: Applied Aspects Features of somatic Gene Mutagenesis in Different Age Groups of Persons exposed to Low Dose Radiation

State of Ecosystems at Long-term Contamination with Transuranium Radionucides

Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (TENORM) in Non- nuclear Industry and their Impact into Environment and Occupational Radiation Risk

Steppe Soils Buffer Capacity and the Multipollution Impact of Industrial Enterprises in Ukraine

Cancer Risk Assessment in Drinking Water of Izmir, Turkey

Enchanced Adsorption of Atrazine in Different Soils in the Presence of Fungal Laccase

Problem of Microelementoze and Technology allowing its Elimination with the Help of Geothermal mineralized Sources

Ecology related Microbiological and Biochemical Parameters in Assessing Soils exposed to Antropogenic Pollution

Molecular & Cellular Effects of chronic Low Dose-Rate ionizing Radiation Exposure in Mice

Multiple Stressors - Risk Assessment and Legal I Ethical Aspects Modeling the best Use of Investments for Minimizing Risks of Multiple Stressors on the Environment

Learning from Chernobyl: Past and Present Responses

Uncertainties from Multiple Stressors: Challenges in ecological Risk Assessment

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