Table of Contents

Preface; Simulation of Ecosystem Degradation and its Application for Effective Policy-Making in Regional Scale; Radionuclide Distribution in the Lower Yenisey and Pechora Reaches: Landscape Geochemical Signatures and Patterns of Global and Regional Contamination; Photochemical Transformation Processes of Organic Pollutants in Surface Waters; Complexity, Nonlinearity and Scaling in Sediment Transport Dynamics; Spatial and Temporal Variation of Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Watersheds; Applications of an Urban Diffuse Pollution Model to Support WFD Investment Appraisal; Assessing Groundwater Pollution Risk in Sarigkiol Basin, NW Greece; What Do People Think About Pollution? Contributions of Human Ecology to the Study of River Pollution with A Focus on Brazil; Surveillance of River Water Pollution by use of an Automatic Trace Metal System; The Status of River Water Chemical Pollution in Zimbabwe: A Review; Ambivalent Role of Microbial Communities in Polluted Rivers; Assessment of Pathogen Indicator Microorganism Loading From Diffuse Sources; Index.