Dynamics of mercury pollution on regional and global scales : atmospheric processes and human exposures around the world / edited by Nicola Pirrone and Kathryn R. Mahaffey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Chapter 1: Where We Stand on Mercury Pollution and its Health Effects on Regional and Global Scales.

Part I: International and Regional Perspectives.
Chapter 2: Global Mercury Production, Use and Trade.
Chapter 3: Mercury Emissions from Anthropogenic Sources: Estimates and Measurements for Europe.
Chapter 4: Legislation and Policy Concerning Mercury in the European Union.
Chapter 5: The DG Research Perspective-Research on Hg Supported by the European Commission.
Chapter 6: Perspective on Mercury: Progress Through Cooperation.


Part II: Monitoring and Analytical Methods.
Chapter 7: The Monitoring and Modelling of Hg Species in Support of Local, Regional and Global Modelling.
Chapter 8: Determination of Mercury and its Compounds in Water, Sediment, Soil and Biological Samples.

Part III: Chemical and Physical Processes.
Chapter 9: Environmental Chamber Studies of Mercury Reactions in the Atmosphere.
Chapter 10: Air-sea Exchange and Marine Boundary Layer Atmospheric Transformation of Hg and their Importance in the Global Mercury Cycle.
Chapter 11: Terrestrial Hg Fluxes: Is the Next Exchange Up, Down, or Neither?.
Chapter 12: Chemical Transformation of Gaseous Elemental Hg in the Atmosphere.
Chapter 13: Modelling Chemical and Physical Processes of Hg Compounds in the Marine Boundary Layer.
Chapter 14: Modelling Transport and Transformation of Hg and its Compounds in Continental Air Masses.

Part IV: Human Exposure.
Chapter 15: Exposure to Mercury in the Americas.
Chapter 16: Exposure to Hg in the General Population of Europe and the Arctic.
Chapter 17: Methylmercury Exposure in General Populations of Japan, Asia and Oceania.
Chapter 18: Mercury Pollution from Artisanal Gold Mining in Block B, El Callao, Bolivar State, Venezuela.
Chapter 19: An Ecosystem Approach to Describe the Mercury Issue in Canada: From Mercury Sources to Human Health.
Chapter 20: The GEF/UNDP/UNIDO Global Mercury Project Environmental and Health Results from a Small-Scale Gold Mining Site in Tanzania.
Chapter 21: Development of Programs to Monitor Methyl-Mercury Exposure and Issue Fish Consumption Advisories.
Chapter 22: Health Effects and Risk Assessment.

Part V: Regional Case Studies.
Chapter 23: Dynamic Processes of Atmospheric Hg in the Mediterranean Region.
Chapter 24: Spatial and Temporal Variability of Atmospheric Hg in North-Western and Central Europe-Observations on Different Time Scale.
Chapter 25: Atmospheric Hg: A Decade of Observations in the Great Lakes.
Chapter 26: Recent Trends in Hg Emissions, Deposition, and Biota in the Florida Everglades: A Monitoring and Modelling Analysis.
Chapter 27: Mercury Pollution in China - An Overview.
Chapter 28: Mercury Pollution in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions.
Chapter 29: EMEP Regional/Hemispheric Mercury Modelling: Achievements and Problems.