Application of a risk assessment method to Europe-wide geochemical baseline data

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 291-299

  Rapant, Stanislav ^a   Reijo, ^b   Tarvainen, T ^b   Krcmova K ^a   Cveckova V ^a  

^a Geological Survey of Slovak Republic   (Slovakia)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Contamination; Environmental risk; Europe; Risk map

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONTAMINATION; DATA STREAMS; FLOODS; GEOCHEMISTRY; IRON COMPOUNDS; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); MAPS; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; ZINC; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK INDICES; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; EUROPE; FLOODPLAIN SEDIMENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT METHODS; RISK MAPS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTION; STREAMWATER; TOPSOIL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ALBANIA; BELGIUM; BENELUX; CENTRAL EUROPE; DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; GERMANY; GREECE; ITALY; NETHERLANDS; NORTHERN EUROPE; SARDINIA; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; SWEDEN; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 49649128466     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1467-7873/08-176     Document Type: Article

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