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This book explores recent advances in heavy metal contamination research in a global context, and focusses on the role of recent technologies like recombinant bioremediation, phytoremediation, DNA technology and nanotechnology to provide sustainable managing strategies to mitigate adverse environmental and health impacts. Many heavy metals are used in industrial and commercial sectors, including iron, zinc, tin, lead, copper, tungsten, cadmium, arsenic, chromium, thallium, and lead, which, when disposed in the natural environment, lead to serious threats to ecological balance in biotic systems and threaten vulnerable human populations. Currently, global scientific communities are very worried about the detrimental health effects of these heavy metals and their adverse effects on almost all biological systems. Scientific research has recorded some alarming adverse impacts of heavy metals on biota like carcinogenesis, mutagenesis, teratogenesis, allergic interactions, endocrine-disruption, bone marrow damage, osteoporosis. and immune system damage. This book is therefore timely, and will be of interest to researchers, students professors, and policymakers examining toxic heavy metals in the environment and their adverse health impacts.
Contents
Chapter 1: Heavy Metals in the Environment: The Global Scope.- Chapter 2: Geographical Variations: Mapping the Distribution of Toxic Metals Across the Globe.- Chapter 3: Mapping Our Metallic Mess: Advanced Modelling for Heavy Metal Dispersion and Prediction.- Chapter 4: Heavy Metals on the Move: From Land to Water - Sources and Transfer Dynamics.- Chapter 5: Heavy Metal Toxicity: A Challenge for Future Food Security.- Chapter 6: A Silent Threat - The Potential Consequences of Toxic Heavy Metals on Human Health.- Chapter 7: Health Concerns and Issues Associated with Toxic Heavy Metals.- Chapter 8: The Toxic Legacy: Unraveling the Human Health Burden of Metal Exposure.- Chapter 9: Case Studies: Unveiling the Human Cost of Toxic Metal Exposure in Different Bio Environs.- Chapter 10: A Global Perspective of Mercury and Cadmium in Agricultural Soils and Cereal Grains.- Chapter 11: A Poisoned Paradise: The Threat of Heavy Metals in Our Waters.- Chapter 12: Silent Toxins: The Global Pathways and Consequences of Heavy Metals in Coastal Beach Ecosystems.- Chapter 13: A Dance with Danger: Unveiling the Toxic Effects of Kathakali Makeup.- Chapter 14: Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification: The Cascading Effects of Toxic Metals in the Biosphere.- Chapter 15: Unveiling the Ecological Costs: Ecotoxicological Aspects of Heavy Metal Pollution.