Includes bibliographical references and index.

Consequences of living in an industrial world / Lesley C. Batty and Kevin B. Hallberg -- 2. Metallophytes : the unique biological resource, its ecology and conservational status in Europe, Central Africa and Latin America / Alan J.M. Baker, Wilfried H.O. Ernst, Antony van der Ent, Francois Malaisse and Rosanna Ginocchio -- 3. Lichens and industrial pollution / Ole William Purvis -- 4. The impacts of metalliferous drainage on aquatic communities in streams and rivers / Lesley C. Batty, Montserrat Auladell and Jon Sadler -- 5. Impacts of emerging contaminants on the environment / Alistair Boxall -- 6. Ecological monitoring and assessment of pollution in rivers / J. Iwan Jones, John Davy-Bowker, John F. Murphy and James L. Pretty -- 7. Detecting ecological effects of pollutants in the aquatic environment / Alastair Grant -- 8. With the benefit of hindsight : the utility of palaeoecology in wetland condition assessment and identification of restoration targets / Peter Gell -- 9. An ecological risk assessment framework for assessing risks from contaminated land in England and Wales / Stephen Roast, Tim Gannicliffe, Danielle K. Ashton, Rachel Benstead, Paul R. Bradford, Paul Whitehouse and Declan Barraclough -- 10. Diversity and evolution of micro-organisms and pathways for the degradation of environmental contaminants : a case study with the s-triazine herbicides / Michale Jay Sadowsky -- 11. The microbial ecology of land and water contaminated with radioactive waste : towards the development of bioremediation options for the nuclear industry / Andrea Geissler, Sonja Selenska-Pobell, Katherine Morris, Ian T. Burke, Francis R. Livens and Jonathan R. Lloyd -- 12. The microbial ecology of remediating industrially contaminated land : sorting out the bugs in the system / Ken Killham -- 13. Ecological recovery in a river polluted to its sources : the River Tame in the English Midlands / Terry E. I. Langford, Peter J. Shaw, Shelly R. Howard, Alastair J.D. Ferguson, David Ottewell and Rowland Eley -- 14. Manchester Ship Canal and Salford Quays : industrial legacy and ecological restoration / Adrian E. Williams, Rachel J. Waterfall, Keith N. White and Keith Hendry -- 15. Large-scale mine site restoration of Australian eucalypt forests after bauxite mining : soil management and ecosystem development / Mark Tibbett -- 16. Sustaining industrial activity and ecological quality : the potential role of an ecosystem services approach / Lorraine Maltby, Achian Paetzold and Philip Warren.