商品簡介
"What the ground releases, the body inherits." This central idea shapes Geohealth: Risk Assessment and Mitigation Strategies, which explores the deep and often unseen connections between geological processes and human health. The book explains how materials mobilised during mining and natural processes move through air, water, soil, and food systems, and reaches human body through these mediums. Their form, mobility, time of exposure and bioavailability decide their hazard potential ultimate effects on the human body. It brings together carefully selected case studies with advances in risk assessment, biomonitoring, and toxicological research to present a clear and evidence-based understanding of exposure and impact. Particular attention is paid to occupational and community health risks, including those associated with mine dust and respirable silica. This book also provides practical and forward-looking solutions for these menaces such as microbial and plant-based remediation, emerging nanotechnologies, and real-time monitoring approaches. By bridging the compartments of geology, environmental science, health and medicine, and policy perspectives, this book offers a balanced and scientifically grounded document that is both useful and accessible. This book will serve as a reference not only to the scientific community of researchers, academicians and students, but also serves as a guide for policy and decision makers, as well as administrators, particularly in the light of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals.
