Behaviour of persistent pollutants and risks associated with their presence in the environment integrated studies

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1517-1531

  Gavrilescu, Maria ^a  

^a GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Contamination; Kinetics; Modelling; Remediation; Risk; Site characterization; Soil

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953845288     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2009.221     Document Type: Conference Paper

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