Bioavailability processes are essential for assessing environmental risk, environmental health, and decision making in environmental management. This practical guide on environmental bioavailability explains the importance of its use and includes specific methods for testing bioavailability of pollutants in water (fresh water and seawater), soils, and sediments. Detailed methods and techniques are given to measure and assess bioavailability using biotic methods, abiotic methods, and modeling. A case study for each approach will help environmental researchers and practitioners understand the applications of bioavailability in field and laboratory.

Features

• Provides information on the importance of environmental bioavailability of pollutants.
• Explains in a “how-to” manner the use of bioavailability in environmental risk assessment and environmental management decision making.
• Includes areas of applicability, optimum conditions, and pros and cons for each method.
• Summarizes state-of-the-art in modeling environmental bioavailability and discusses current best practices.
• Includes case studies illustrating the assessment of bioavailability using different approaches.

This handbook is intended for professionals, researchers, academics, environmental practitioners, and policy makers working in the areas of environmental risk assessment, environmental health, environmental management, sustainability, and related fields. It is also an excellent resource for students who are studying in any of these fields and looking for a foundational text on environmental bioavailability.