Pollution, interdisciplinary

This cascading effect may have been best demonstrated from interdisciplinary research addressing the consequences of chronic oxidant air pollution exposure to the mixed conifer forests of the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California. Miller et al. (76) reported that chronic exposure to oxidant air pollutants resulted in decreased photosynthetic capacity, premature... 

The applicability of using these interdisciplinary approaches, which include incorporation of various physical and chemical properties of the pollutants, QSARs/QSPRs and multicomponent joint action modeling are discussed and evaluated using a group of toxic and carcinogenic pollutants, i. e., polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). 

This section represents different case studies to explain how physical and chemical properties, QSAR and QSPR approaches, and multicomponent toxic effect models can be used to predict the mobility and bioavailability of organic pollutants at aqueous-solid phase interfaces. Such interdisciplinary approaches are applied here to two groups of toxic and carcinogenic compounds. 

Brassell S.C., Eglinton G. (1980) Environmental chemistry— an interdisciplinary subject. Natural and pollutant organic compounds in contemporary aquatic environments. In Environmental Chemistry (ed. Albaiges J.), 1—22. Oxford Pergamon. 

Ahlf, W. and Heise, S. (2007) Quality assurance of ecotoxicological sediment analysis. In Westrich, B. and Forstner, U. (eds) Sediment Dynamics and Pollutant Mobility in Rivers An Interdisciplinary Approach, Springer, Berlin, Germany, Chapter 10.1, pp. 380-391. 

Research on the environmental aspects of combustion is inherently multidisciplinary. Fundamental research is needed within specific areas instrument development is needed to facilitate this research and interdisciplinary collaborations are needed to evaluate the health impacts of combustion-generated pollution. 

Scandinavian and European studies, including the Norwegian Interdisciplinary Research Programme Acid Precipitation—Effects on Forest and Fish, and the study by the European Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, elucidated the effects of acid rain on fish and forests and long-distance transport of pollutants in Europe. 

Organic pollutants of the hydrosphere are regularly analysed and the results are published systematically [120-125]. The immense quantity of papers dealing with identification of organic pollutants of the hydrosphere, e.g. [126-130], shows the considerable development of analytic methods in this field. A good example of the progress in this interdisciplinary field is the monograph [120]. 

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