Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World

Part I. Air and Water Pollution

1. Environmental Fate of Chiral Pharmaceuticals: Determination, Degradation and Toxicity
Ana R. Ribeiro, Paula M. L. Castro, Maria Elizabeth Tiritan

2. Pollutant-Induced Decay of Building Materials
Jorge Sanjurjo-Sánchez, Carlos Alves

3. Novel Bioreactors for Waste Gas Treatment
Eldon R. Rene, María Montes, María C. Veiga, Christian Kennes

4. Extraction Procedures for Organic Pollutants Determination in Water
N. Etxebarria, P. Navarro, A. Prieto, M. Olivares, A. Usobiaga, L. A. Fernández, Olatz Zuloaga

5. Oxidation of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins by Chlorine Dioxide. Implications for Water Treatment
Virender K. Sharma, Mary Sohn

6. Biodegradation of Azo Dyes from Wastewater
Pijush Kanti Mondal, Brajesh Chauhan

7. Air Quality Monitoring with Lichens in India. Heavy Metals and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Vertika Shukla, D. K. Upreti

Part II. Remediation

8. Electrochemical Remediation Technologies for Waters Contaminated by Pharmaceutical Residues
Enric Brillas, Ignasi Sirés

9. Biogas Technologies and Cleaning Techniques
M. Estefanía López, Eldon R. Rene, María C. Veiga, Christian Kennes

10. Heavy Metals: Toxicity and Removal by Biosorption
Ackmez Mudhoo, Vinod Kumar Garg, Shaobin Wang

11. Fe–Mn Concretions and Nodules to Sequester Heavy Metals in Soils
Dionisios Gasparatos

12. Bioremediation of Arsenic in Contaminated Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments
Beata B. Dabrowska, Meththika Vithanage, K. R. Gunaratna, Arun B. Mukherjee, Prosun Bhattacharya

13. Microbial Pathogen Inactivation Using Heterogeneous Photocatalysis
Mohammad Abbas Mahmood, Sunandan Baruah, Anil Kumar Anal, Joydeep Dutta

Nyckelord: Environment, Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, general, Ecotoxicology, Analytical Chemistry