44th IUPAC Congress: Environmental Chemistry
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Hemda Garelick
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Bradley Miller
This special issue evolved from the following three symposia sponsored by IUPAC’s Chemistry and the Environment Division and presented at the 44th IUPAC Congress in Istanbul, Turkey, 11–16 August 2013:
Analytical and Risk Considerations for Nanomaterials and Emerging Environmental Contaminants
Marine Pollution and Sustainable Management of Coastal Environments
Bioavailability of Metals, Metalloids and Organic Contaminants in the Environment
The term “emerging environmental contaminant” refers to a diverse group of substances that includes new chemicals as well as those that have long been present in the environment but for which monitoring and (eco)toxicological data are limited or unavailable (e.g. nanoparticles, pharmaceuticals, metalloids, and others).
Assessment of the risk from and the significance of these contaminants depend upon comprehensive knowledge of their fate and their adverse effects in different environmental compartments and living organisms. Stakeholders are therefore charged with the challenging task of generating, interpreting, and modeling data related to their concentrations, behavior, bioavailability, and (eco)toxicology as well as methodological aspects related to their analysis and monitoring.
A general risk assessment process would recognize the need for the understanding of complexity and the consideration of chemicals’ life cycle in the environment.
The aim of this special issue, supported by IUPAC’s Chemistry and the Environment Division, is to provide a critical review of both fundamental and applied aspects of the behavior of these contaminants in the environment and aid future risk assessment, which is based on appropriate consideration of their whole life cycle.
The division sponsors a number of active projects and symposia that focus on the complex interrelationship between environmental chemistry and sustainable environmental management. Special consideration is given to areas of human activities such as industrial and agricultural activities as well as the effects of naturally occurring materials of toxicological significance.
The full understanding of chemical processes in the environment should involve:
consideration of the underlying natural processes,
introduction of new materials,
sources of pollution, and
risks that chemical pollution can pose to both human and ecological health.
The interactions between the different environmental compartments, air, soil, water, and food, also play a major role in the above processes and strongly influence potential routes of human exposure via inhalation and/or consumption of food and water.
This issue presents papers that emerged from the three symposia which aim to address the challenges referred to above. A variety of topics and environmental contaminants are discussed, ranging from environmental safety-related considerations of water scarcity, water reuse, and marine pollution to uranium toxicity and the impact of nanoparticles in the environment.
©2014 IUPAC & De Gruyter Berlin/Boston
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Congress-44 Environmental Chemistry
- Preface
- 44th IUPAC Congress: Environmental Chemistry
- Conference papers
- Estimating the bioavailability of trace metals/metalloids and persistent organic substances in terrestrial environments: challenges and need for multidisciplinary approaches
- Chemical speciation in fresh, saline and hyper-saline waters
- Uranium toxicity and chelation therapy
- Analysis of trace elements in surface sediments, mussels, seagrass and seawater along the southeastern Adriatic coast – a chemometric approach
- Advances in understanding the transformation of engineered nanoparticles in the environment
- Novel Fe-Pd/SiO2 catalytic materials for degradation of chlorinated organic compounds in water
- Nanotechnology management for a safer work environment
- Bibliometric analysis of research on secondary organic aerosols: Update
- Surface-functionalized silica gel adsorbents for efficient remediation of cationic dyes
- Experimental study of cadmium bioaccumulation in three Mediterranean marine bivalve species: correlation with selected biomarkers
- Water scarcity, water reuse, and environmental safety
- ICHC-24
- Preface
- The 24th International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry Congress (ICHC-24)
- Conference papers
- Organocatalytic asymmetric synthesis of chiral nitrogenous heterocycles and natural products
- Efficient asymmetric syntheses of alkaloids and medicinally relevant molecules based on heterocyclic chiral building blocks
- Naphthalimides for labeling and sensing applications
- Metal-catalyzed synthesis of heterocycles bearing a trifluoromethyl group
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Congress-44 Environmental Chemistry
- Preface
- 44th IUPAC Congress: Environmental Chemistry
- Conference papers
- Estimating the bioavailability of trace metals/metalloids and persistent organic substances in terrestrial environments: challenges and need for multidisciplinary approaches
- Chemical speciation in fresh, saline and hyper-saline waters
- Uranium toxicity and chelation therapy
- Analysis of trace elements in surface sediments, mussels, seagrass and seawater along the southeastern Adriatic coast – a chemometric approach
- Advances in understanding the transformation of engineered nanoparticles in the environment
- Novel Fe-Pd/SiO2 catalytic materials for degradation of chlorinated organic compounds in water
- Nanotechnology management for a safer work environment
- Bibliometric analysis of research on secondary organic aerosols: Update
- Surface-functionalized silica gel adsorbents for efficient remediation of cationic dyes
- Experimental study of cadmium bioaccumulation in three Mediterranean marine bivalve species: correlation with selected biomarkers
- Water scarcity, water reuse, and environmental safety
- ICHC-24
- Preface
- The 24th International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry Congress (ICHC-24)
- Conference papers
- Organocatalytic asymmetric synthesis of chiral nitrogenous heterocycles and natural products
- Efficient asymmetric syntheses of alkaloids and medicinally relevant molecules based on heterocyclic chiral building blocks
- Naphthalimides for labeling and sensing applications
- Metal-catalyzed synthesis of heterocycles bearing a trifluoromethyl group
