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Ecological Risk Assessment of Lead (Pb) after Waste Disposal from Metallurgical Industries
Jahangir Jafari, Nematollah Khorasani and Afshin Danehkar
Corresponding Author: Jahangir Jafari
Submitted: 2010 April, 26
Accepted: 2010 May, 12
Published: 2010 July, 10 |
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Not being available sufficient information about ERA of lead, this paper provides a brief critical
review to the mentioned concept. Being presented in soils, heavy metals constitute serious environmental
hazards from the point of view of polluting the soils and adjoining streams and rivers. Pb is generally the metal
of great concern as well as being phytotoxic. Ecological risk assessment is a process that evaluates the
likelihood that adverse ecological effects may occur or are occurring as a result of exposure to one or more
stressors. Metallurgical waste like other waste materials consists not only of Pb, but also consists in large
quantities relatively. The ubiquitous distribution and known toxicity of lead pollution in urban environment are
posing great concern, in term of human health and environment. According to the importance and criticality
of this issue, a holistic risk-based approach is inevitable at least for environmental health and monitoring
(EHM). Reviewing literature, it is found that approximately most of the researches have been carried out in
aquatic environments. From the other side, those carried out in terrestrial environment, are non-Pb focusing.
Considering the researches pertaining to ERA, however few researches have been carried out in the field of
metallurgical industries, none of them has addressed the Pb ERA in a holistic approach.
Key words: DSS, EHM, ERA, metallurgical industries, Pb, ,
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Jahangir Jafari, Nematollah Khorasani and Afshin Danehkar, . Ecological Risk Assessment of Lead (Pb) after Waste Disposal from Metallurgical Industries. Research Journal of Environmental and Earth Sciences, (3): Page No: 139-145.
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