Heavy Metals: A Problem Solved? : Methods and Models to Evaluate Policy Strategies for Heavy Metals / by Jeroen C.J.M. Bergh, Mathijs N. Bouman, Patricia P.A.A.H. Kandelaars, Theo M. Lexmond, Simon W. Moolenaar, Jos Boelens, Xander Olsthoorn, Evert Verkuijlen, Jeroen B. Guinée, Reinout Heijungs, Gjalt Huppes, Lauran Oers, Helias A. Udo Haes, Ester Voet ; edited by Ester Voet, Jeroen B. Guinée, Helias A. Udo Haes.
Most publications on heavy metals and the environment have focused on environmental pathways and risks. The present book establishes a link between the environmental risks of heavy metals and the societal causes of the risks. Economic models, substance flow models and environmental fate and risk ass...
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2000.
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| Series: | Environment & policy ;
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Table of Contents:
- I.1 General Introduction
- I.2 Basic concepts and approaches
- II. 1 General modelling issues for economic and substance flow models
- II. 2 FLUX, a tool for substance flow analysis
- II. 3 Economic analysis of Material-Product Chains
- II. 4 Heavy-metal balances of agricultural soils
- II. 5 Dynabox: A dynamic multi-media fate model for the case of heavy metals
- II. 6 Sustainability indicators for the case of heavy metals
- II. 7 Combining SFA and economic models
- III. 1 Metals in the Netherlands: application of FLUX, Dynabox and the indicators
- III. 2 Applications of Material-Product Chain analysis
- III. 3 Applications of dynamic balances in agricultural systems
- IV. 1 Introduction
- IV. 2 The generation of solutions for the environmental problems related to zinc and copper in the Netherlands
- IV. 3 Results of the scenario calculations
- IV. 4 Discussion and conclusions
- V.1 Summary of results
- V.2 Conclusions
- V.3 Recommendations.