Arsenic Pollution: A Global Synthesis
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- Provides the first global and interdisciplinary account of arsenic pollution occurrences
- Integrates geochemistry, hydrology, agriculture, and water supply and treatment for the first time
- Options are highlighted for developing alternative water sources and methods for arsenic testing and removal
- Appeals to specialists in one discipline seeking an overview of the work being done in other disciplines
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Hugh Brammer spent 22 years with FAO in East Pakistan/Bangladesh, first as a soil surveyor then as an agricultural development adviser. Following retirement, he was a visiting consultant for a further seven years, inter alia for the Bangladesh Flood Action Plan, and wrote seven books on Bangladesh's physical environment and agriculture.
Keith Richards is a fluvial geomorphologist and Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge. He has research interests and experience in catchment and river processes and their management in Europe, Central America, India, Africa and China, and has been Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute and a Vice President (Research) of the RGS-IBG. He has authored and edited several books, and published over 150 academic papers.
