Emerging processes for soil and groundwater cleanup - Potential benefits and risks

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1293-1307

  Gavrilescu, Maria ^a  

^a GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Contamination; Remediation; Risk; Site characterization; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953855678     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2009.190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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