History, Study and Remediation

• A Book Series edited by Jochen Bunschuh and Prosun Bhatatcharya
• Application for a volume
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  Water and well being - Arsenic in Bangladesh,
  
• by Steve Drury 
• Open University Worldwide, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA,  UK
  
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• Essentials of medical geology: Impacts of the natural environment on public health
• Dlle Selinus, Brian Alloway, Jose A .Centeno, Robert B. Finkelman, Ron Fuge, Ulf Lindh and Pauline Smedley, Eds.
  
• Elsevier Academic Press, Burlington, MA, San Diego, CA, USA, and London, UK, 2005, ISBN 0-12-636341-2.
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    MANAGING ARSENIC IN THE ENVIRONMENT  
  
• From Soil to Human Health 
  
• Edited by: R. NAidu, E Smith, G Owens, P Bhatatcharya and P Nadebaum  
  
• CSRO publishing
  
• POBox 1139,
  
• Collingwood, Victoria, Australia,
  
• publishing.sales.csiro.com
  
• 664 pp $165 (AU) 
  
• expected January 2006
  
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• World Bank:  
• Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in South and East Asian Countries: 
  
• Toward a More effective response
  
  Volume I: Policy Report  Full Report (1,038kb pdf)
  Volume II: Technical Report  Full Report  (2,879kb pdf)
  Paper 1: Arsenic Occurence in Groundwater in South and East Asia -- Scale, Causes, and Mititgation (715kb)
  Paper 2: An Overview of Current Operational Responses to the Arsenic Issue in South and East Asia  (413kb)
  Paper 3: Arsenic Mitigation Technologies in South and East Asia (345kb)
  Paper 4: The Economics of Arsenic Mitigation (335k)
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• Natural Arsenic in Groundwater, Occurrence,Remediation and Management.
  
• Bundschuh, J., Bhattacharya, P.  Chandrashekharam, D. (Eds.)
• A.A. Balkema Publishers, Taylor and Francis Group, London, pp. 319-330 (2005)
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•   Natural Arsenic in Groundwater: Occurrence, Remediation and  Management
•  Jochen Bundschuh (ICE, Costa Rica/UNSE, Argentina), Prosun Bhattacharya (KTH Stockholm) and D. Chandrashekharam (IIT Bombay, India)     A.A. Balkema Publishers, Leiden/London/New York/Philadelphia/Singapore (Taylor& Francis Group plc, London, UK Copyright © 2005) based on the papers presented at the Pre-Congress Workshop "Natural Arsenic in Groundwater" during the 32nd International Geological Congress at Florence, 18-19 August 2004 (see http://www.lwr.kth.se/Personal/personer/bhattacharya_prosun/IGC2004_BWo-06_FLORENCE.htm
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• Venomous Earth 
  
• Andrew A Meharg 
  
• Macmillan publishers 208pp $29.95;L16.99 (2005)
• Publisher's catalog page: http://www.palgrave-usa.com/Catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403944997 
  
•         University of Aberdeen release: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mediareleases/release.php?id=104
•         Guardian book review:   http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1393998,00.html
          New Scientist book review:   http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg18424772.200
        Popular Science book review:   http://www.popularscience.co.uk/reviews/rev145.htm 
•          Review by the webmaster Richard Wilson  
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• Arsenic:  in ground water:  the hidden catastrophe;a comprehensive review; Bangaldesh Perspective
• Mohammed Lutfor Rahman Chowdhury
  
• Published by:  MARahman, Bangladesh
  
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• Arsenic: Environment and Health Aspects with Special Attention to Groundwater in SE Asia:   Eds. Dipankar Chakraborti, Abul Hussam, Mohammad Alauddin:  (Eds)    Environmental Science and Health (Mercel Dekker, USA) 38(1) ( 2003 )  SPECIAL ISSUE   Forward

• International Symposium on Fate of Arsenic in the Environment, Dhaka 5-6 February 2003 BUET_UNU International Symposium Editors: Feroze Ahmed, M Ashraf Ali, ZAfar Adee

• Arsenic in Groundwater:  Geochemistry and Occurrence,   A.H Welch and K.G Stollenberg, (eds.,)  Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston (2002) avaiable on AMAZON for $127
  

• Arsenic Contamination: A Bangladesh Perspective.  Editor:  M. Feroze Ahmed.  ITN-Bangladesh,  Published by ITN,  Civil engineering Building, BUET, Dhaka-1000 Bangladesh  Telephone: (88-02)9663693

  An edited volume which is a MUST read for any serious student of the Bangladesh Problems.

• Environmental Chemistry of Arsenic,   W.T Frankenberger Jr.,(ed.)  Marcel Dekker, NY (2002)

• Arsenic Exposure and Health Effects
  Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Arsenic Exposure and Health Effects,
   July 14-18, 2002, San Diego, California  Eds.: W.R. Chappell, University of Colorado at Denver. CO, USA, C.O. Abernathy, U.S. EPA, Washington, DC, USA,  R.L. Calderon and D.J. Thomas, U.S. EPA, Triangle Park, NC, USA

• The second edition of " Risk/Benefit Analysis: Nuclear, Chemical and other Risks " by Richard Wilson and Edmund A.C. Crouch is at Harvard University Press and on the bookstands.  As a sample, see the Table of Contents, the first pages of the Introduction, and some advance comments on the book .

• Environmental Health Criteria 18: Arsenic. World Health Organization  online 
• Environmental Health Criteria 224:  (2001) Arsenic And Arsenic Compounds  online:,
• A compilation of papers presented at the International Workshop on Technologies for Arsenic Removal from Drinking Water organized by Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh and The United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan. Available from ITN,  Civil engineering Building, BUET, Dhaka-1000 Bangladesh  Telephone: (88-02)9663693       Edited by: M. Feroze Ahmed Ph.D.Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, BUET, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh M. Ashraf Ali Ph.D.Associate Professor,Department of Civil Engineering, BUET, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh Zafar Adeel Ph.D.Academic Programme Officer, Environment and Sustainable Development The United Nations University, Tokyo,
  
• Arsenicosis in West Bengal: 2002    K.C Saha   Sadananda Publishers 5/1, Mamanath Mazumdar Street Kolcata, 700009
• Arsenic: exposure and health effects . 1997. Abernathy, Calderon, Chappell. 
• Arsenic Removal by Enhanced Coagulation & Membrane Processes. 1996. Hering & Elimelech
• Arsenic exposure and health. 1995. Chappell, Abernathy, Cothern. 
• Arsenic in the environment 1994. John Wiley & Sons.
• Occurrence & Pathways of Lead, Mercury, Cadium & Arsenic in the Environment: Scope 31. 1987. Hutchinson &Meema (Eds.) 
•  Arsenic in the Environment: Scope 31. 1987. Hutchinson &Meema (Eds.)
  
• IARC monographs on evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans vol 1,p 41 (1972); vol 2, p 48 (1973), Vol 23 p 39 (1980) supplement 7 p 100 (1987)  IARC, WHO Lyon, France

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