TY  - CHAP
AU  - M. S. Kuyukina
AU  - I. B. Ivshina
AU  - S. O. Makarov
AU  - J. C. Philp
ED  - Jatin Kumar Srivastava
Y1  - 2012-02-29
PY  - 2012
T1  - Risk Assessment and Management of Terrestrial Ecosystems Exposed to Petroleum Contamination
N2  - Nature minimizes the hazards, while man maximizes them. This is not an assumption, but a basic idea of the findings of scientists from all over the world. The last two centuries have witnessed the indiscriminate development and overexploitation of natural resources by man causing alterations and impairment of our own environment. Environmental contamination is the result of the irrational use of resources at the wrong place and at the wrong time. Environmental contamination has changed the lifestyle of people virtually all over the world, and has reduced the extent of life on earth. Today, we are bound to compromises with such environmental conditions, which was not anticipated for the sustenance of humanity and other life forms. Let us find out the problem and its management within this book.
BT  - Environmental Contamination
SP  - Ch. 10
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/31556
DO  - 10.5772/31556
SN  - 
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-25
ER  -