Source identification and health risk assessment of metals in urban soils around the Tanggu chemical industrial district, Tianjin, China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 468-469, Issue , 2014, Pages 654-662

  Zhao, Long ^a   Xu, Yafei ^a   Hou, Hong ^a   Shangguan, Yuxian ^a   Li, Fasheng ^a  

^a CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Multivariate statistical analysis; Risk assessment; Source identification; Spatial distribution; Urban soil

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COAL COMBUSTION; ELECTRON EMISSION; HEAVY METALS; LEAD; METALS; POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SOILS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES; INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGES; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; POINT SOURCE EMISSIONS; SOURCE IDENTIFICATION; URBAN SOILS;

MERCURY (METAL);

ARSENIC; CHROMIUM; COAL; COPPER; LEAD; MERCURY; METAL; NICKEL; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; ZINC;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEALTH RISK; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHINA; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EXHAUST GAS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIC MATTER PRODUCTION; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION MONITORING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLUDGE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROPERTY; SOLID WASTE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE SOIL; URBAN AREA;

CHINA; TIANJIN;

HEAVY METALS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOURCE IDENTIFICATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN SOIL;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHINA; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALS, HEAVY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84884383319     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.08.094     Document Type: Article

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