Guideline for Understanding Geological Environmental Contamination

“Guideline for Understanding Geological Environmental Contamination” by Nicolaie Heredea is a comprehensive and coherent work, written as a guide that revisits, details, comments, explains, and recommends technical issues from existing regulations and technical materials waiting for promotion, bringing them together in a unified approach to knowledge, aimed at solving soil and groundwater contamination.

The book offers, in its nine chapters, professional advice and recommendations on what should be done and the characteristics of a completely and complexly contaminated site, in all its aspects, to make the best decisions regarding the actions to be taken. It is a valid and applicable guide for understanding all types of contamination, including radioactive contamination.

The book can be read by anyone interested in the field and is useful to those dealing with soil, groundwater, monitoring, environmental radioactivity surveillance, inspection and control, individuals with professional training in earth sciences, consultants, or environmental service providers who intend to or are already working with soil, groundwater, contamination, as well as landowners of contaminated sites.