Pollution sources and occurrences of selected persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in sediments of the Mekong River delta, South Vietnam

Chemosphere

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1794-1801

  Minh, Nguyen Hung ^a   Minh, Tu Binh ^a   Kajiwara, Natsuko ^a   Kunisue, Tatsuya ^a   Iwata, Hisato ^a   Viet, Pham Hung ^b   Cam Tu, Nguyen Phuc ^c   Tuyen, Bui Cach ^d   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NONG LAM UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Mekong River; Pollution source; POPs; Sediment; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENTS;

PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS (POP); POLLUTION SOURCES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENTS; SOIL SURVEYS;

DDE; DDT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HCH; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; URBAN AREA;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGY; ORGANIC POLLUTION; POLLUTANT; RIVER; RURAL AREA; SEDIMENT; URBAN AREA; VIET NAM; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION;

ASIA; CANADA; EURASIA; MEKONG DELTA; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 33847698952     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.05.144     Document Type: Article

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