Spatial health risk assessment and hierarchical risk management for mercury in soils from a typical contaminated site, China

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 923-934

  Li, Fei ^a   Zhang, Jingdong ^a   Jiang, Wei ^a   Liu, Chaoyang ^a   Zhang, Zhongmin ^a   Zhang, Chengde ^a   Zeng, Guangming ^b  

^a ZHONGNAN UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND LAW   (China)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contaminated site; Management policy; Mercury; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EARTHWORKS; HEALTH RISK; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLICY MAKING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

CHINA; HUNAN;

MERCURY;

ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STANDARD;

CHINA; MERCURY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84982308374     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: 15732983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-016-9864-7     Document Type: Article

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