Young J. Kim – Advanced Environmental Monitoring (2008)

Автор: Young J. Kim
Название книги: Advanced Environmental Monitoring
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Экология
Страницы: 432
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

This book deals with recent developments and applications of environmental monitoring technologies, with emphasis on rapidly progressing optical and biological methods. Written by worldwide experts, this book will be of interest to environmental scientists in academia, research institutes, industry and the government.

We are facing increasing environmental concerns associated with water, air, and soil
pollution as well as climate change induced by human activities. Therefore accurate
assessment of the state of the environment is a prerequisite for undertaking any course
of action towards improvement. In particular, development of new environmental
monitoring technologies for the detection of hazardous pollutants and environmental
change has become increasingly important to scientists and to regulatory agencies.
In recent years there has been much progress in the field of environmental monitoring
research, resulting in the development of more accurate, fast, compound-specific,
convenient, and cost-effective techniques by integrating emerging technologies from
various disciplines.
This book is a result of the 6th International Symposium on Advanced Environmental
Monitoring, organized by ADvanced Environmental Monitoring Center (ADEMRC),
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea and held in Heidelberg,
Germany on June, 27–30, 2006. It presents recent advances in the research and
development of forthcoming technologies, as well as in field applications in advanced
environmental monitoring. It is our hope that the papers presented in this book will
provide a glimpse of how cutting-edge technologies involving monitoring of pollutants,
determination of environmental status, and the detection and quantification of
toxicity are being developed and applied in the field.
We give many thanks to all authors for their participation and contributions and
to the reviewers for their goodwill in providing a rapid turnover of the manuscripts
and the critical comments necessary for ensuring the quality of this publication.
We gratefully acknowledge Dr. Paul Roos, Editorial Director, and Betty van Herk
of Springer for their continuing support and cooperation in making this book a
reality. Members of the symposium organizing committee deserve the most credit
for the success of the symposium and their critical suggestions for collection of
the manuscripts. This symposium was supported in part by the Korea Science
and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) through the Advanced Environmental
Monitoring Research Center at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology.