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"""Volume 1 in the Engineering Tools for Environment Risk Management series, this book addresses engineering, management and legislation tools for caring for the environment. As it is the first volume, the book begins with a look at the important functions of a healthy ecosystem. The contributing authors then explore ways in which chemical substances, contaminated land, intensive agriculture, mining and waste management have changed the landscape and made it less able to provide important services to humans. Volume 1 concludes with an introduction to the foundations of progressive environmental protection including balancing the needs of nature and the desires of man, understanding how regulation can be used to your advantage, and the potential for the use of novel technologies to create a more promising future for the environment."" —Ringgold, Inc. Book News, February 2015"

""Volume 1 in the Engineering Tools for Environment Risk Management series, this book addresses engineering, management and legislation tools for caring for the environment. As it is the first volume, the book begins with a look at the important functions of a healthy ecosystem. The contributing authors then explore ways in which chemical substances, contaminated land, intensive agriculture, mining and waste management have changed the landscape and made it less able to provide important services to humans. Volume 1 concludes with an introduction to the foundations of progressive environmental protection including balancing the needs of nature and the desires of man, understanding how regulation can be used to your advantage, and the potential for the use of novel technologies to create a more promising future for the environment."" —Ringgold, Inc. Book News, February 2015

Volume 1 in the Engineering Tools for Environment Risk Management series, this book addresses engineering, management and legislation tools for caring for the environment. As it is the first volume, the book begins with a look at the important functions of a healthy ecosystem. The contributing authors then explore ways in which chemical substances, contaminated land, intensive agriculture, mining and waste management have changed the landscape and made it less able to provide important services to humans. Volume 1 concludes with an introduction to the foundations of progressive environmental protection including balancing the needs of nature and the desires of man, understanding how regulation can be used to your advantage, and the potential for the use of novel technologies to create a more promising future for the environment. -Ringgold, Inc. Book News, February 2015

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Katalin Gruiz graduated in chemical engineering at Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1975, received her doctorate in bioengineering and her Ph.D. in environmental engineering. Her main fields of activities are: teaching, consulting, research and development of engineering tools for risk-based environmental management, development and use of innovative technologies such as special environmental toxicity assays, integrated monitoring methods, biological and ecological remediation technologies for soils and waters, both for regulatory and engineering purposes. Prof. Gruiz has published 35 papers, 25 book chapters, more than hundred conference papers, edited 6 books and a special journal edition. She has coordinated a number of Hungarian research projects and participated in European ones. Gruiz is a member of the REACH Risk Assessment Committee of the European Chemicals Agency. She is a full time associate professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics and heads the research group of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology. Tamás Meggyes is a research co-ordinator specialising in research and book projects in environmental engineering. His work focuses on fluid mechanics, hydraulic transport of solids, jet devices, landfill engineering, groundwater remediation, tailings facilities and riskbased environmental management. He contributed to and organised several international conferences and national and European integrated research projects in Hungary, Germany, United Kingdom and USA. Tamás Meggyes was Europe editor of the Land Contamination and Reclamation journal in the UK and a reviewer of several environmental journals. He was invited by the EU as an expert evaluator to assess research applications and by Samarco Mining Company, Brazil, as a tailings management expert. In 2007, he was named Visiting Professor of Built Environment Sustainability at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He has published 130 papers including eleven books and holds a doctor’s title in fluid mechanics and a Ph.D. degree in landfill engineering from Miskolc University, Hungary. Éva Fenyvesi is a senior scientist, a founding member of CycloLab Cyclodextrin Research and Development Ltd. She graduated as a chemist and received her PhD in chemical technology at Eötvös University of Natural Sciences, Budapest. She is experienced in the preparation and application of cyclodextrin polymers, in environmental application of cyclodextrins and in gas chromatography. She participated in several national and international research projects, in the development of various environmental technologies applying cyclodextrins. She is author or co-author of over 50 scientific papers, 3 chapters in monographs, over 50 conference presentations and 14 patents. She is an editor of the Cyclodextrin News, the monthly periodical on cyclodextrins.

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