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Heavy Metals in Urban Dust

In: Heavy Metals

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  • Fumiyuki Nakajima
  • Rupak Aryal

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Urban dust is contaminated by pollutants from various diffused sources and is often difficult to be controlled. It elevates the background heavy metal exposure level to humans and ecosystems in and around urban area and may give an apparent or hidden impact. In this chapter, the recent studies on heavy metals in the urban dust are summarized. First, the heavy metal pollution of the dust in the atmosphere and on the road surface is described. Then, the process of road runoff and subsequent infiltration to the soil is discussed from the viewpoint of heavy metal mobility. Finally, the ecotoxicity of road dust is shown, and the causal pollutants in the dust are discussed.

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  • Fumiyuki Nakajima & Rupak Aryal, 2018. "Heavy Metals in Urban Dust," Chapters, in: Hosam M. Saleh & Refaat Fekry Eid Sayed (ed.), Heavy Metals, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:137435
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.74205
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    Keywords

    urban road dust; road runoff; infiltration; ecotoxicity; atmospheric particulate matter;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q55 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation

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