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1040857
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b795227
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International Conference on Water Contamination Emergencies(3rd :2008 :, London, England)
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Water contamination emergencies : : collective responsibility /\ edited by John Gray, K. Clive Thompson.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge :: Royal Society of Chemistry,, ©2009.
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Special publication ;; no. 317
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1 online resource (ix, 412 pages) :: illustrations
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0854041729
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: 1680153757
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: 9780854041725
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: 9781680153750
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0854041729
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184755931X
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9781847559319
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| Notes
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"The proceedings of the International Conference on Water Contamination Emergencies: Collective Responsibility held at the Royal Society of Medicine, London on 7-8 April 2008"--Title page verso.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Water emergencies : opening remarks -- Water is life : a view of organisational resilience in the Australian water industry -- Online toxicity monitors and their use in distribution system and watershed early warning systems -- Water supply security issues and trends -- Consequence management within the Environmental Protection Agency's water security initiative -- Application of a risk based approach to security and integrity of assets : a regulators view -- Let's get real : real world experiences with real-time on-line monitoring for security and quality, detecting and responding to events -- The organisational culture of managing incidents and risks in the water sector -- A simulation tool for contaminant warning system design and evaluation -- CBRN modelling : application to water contamination -- Planning, preparedness and security of the alternative water supply -- Procedures for the decontamination of building plumbing systems -- Lessons learned from summer floods 2007, phase 1 report : emergency response prepared by Water UK's review group on flooding -- Risk assessment methodology for water utilities (RAM-W) : lessons learned -- Risk-based approaches to water quality management : integrating public health metrics in water safety planning -- How standards can assist the assessment of, recovery, and prevention of future emergencies -- The XX edition of the Torino Olympic Games experience : planning for and responding to drinking water contamination threats and incidents -- Sensitive, selective and simple UV-spectrometry for contaminant alarm systems -- Fully automated instrumentation for nucleic acid testing in the field -- Optimisation of NMR methodology for non-targeted detection of water contaminants -- Preventing water contamination : a co-ordinated response -- Potential sources of man-made radiochemical contamination of water resources with special emphasis on the nuclear fuel cycle -- Rapid methods -- Processing and databasing spectroscopic analyses and its use in the elucidation of unkowns -- Handbooks to assist in the management of a radiological incident involving the contamination of drinking water supplies -- Robust on-line total organic carbon (TOC) analyser for security monitoring -- Water UK emergency planning -- The Scottish waterborne hazard plan -- Research related to water security -- Early warning and reports -- Ok, we've got a problem, so who do we tell? : inter-agency communications, a water company view -- Review and evaluation of water concentration technologies for analysis by real-time PCR -- Scientific and technical advisory cell (STAC) : getting timely public health advice to multi-agency frontline responders -- Communicating with the public during water contamination events : addressing vulnerable populations -- Medical preparedness for water contamination events -- Keeping the public on-side and maintaining reputation -- Sociological and psychological constraints to learning from failure -- Lessons learned from major contamination incidents : a discussion.
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| Abstract
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By leading experts, this is an up-to-date view of the strategies essential for an effective response to water contamination emergencies.
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Emergency management, Congresses.
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Water-- Pollution, Congresses.
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Water-- Pollution-- Health aspects, Congresses.
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Water-- Pollution-- Prevention, Congresses.
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Delivery of Health Care.
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Disaster Planning.
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Disasters.
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Disciplines and Occupations
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Disease Attributes
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Disease.
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Emergencies.
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Environment and Public Health
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Environment.
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Environmental Exposure.
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Environmental Monitoring.
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Environmental Pollution.
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Health Occupations.
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Health.
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Medicine.
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Pathologic Processes.
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Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms
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Population Characteristics.
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Public Health Practice.
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Public Health.
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Water Pollution.
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Chemistry.
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Civil Environmental Engineering.
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Emergency management.
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Engineering Applied Sciences.
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Environmental Engineering.
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Pollution threats to the environment.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- Environmental-- Water Supply.
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Water-- Pollution-- Health aspects.
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Water-- Pollution-- Prevention.
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Water-- Pollution.
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| Dewey Classification
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628.168
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| LC Classification
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TD419.5.I57 2008
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| Added Entry
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Gray, J., (John),1947-
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Thompson, K. C., (Kenneth Clive),1944-
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