Appendix A – References excluded from the evaluation

LANDFILLS

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6.  Biederman, L. A. and S. W. Whisenant (2009). "Organic amendments direct grass population dynamics in a landfill prairie restoration." Ecological Engineering 35(5): 678-686.

7.  Black, H. (2010). "Endotoxin from biomass burning: an underestimated health hazard?" Environ Health Perspect 118(7): A304.

8.  Boothe, D. D. H., M. C. Smith, et al. (2001). "Characterization of microbial populations in landfill leachate and bulk samples during aerobic bioreduction." Advances in Environmental Research 5(3): 285-294.

9.  Burrell, P. C., C. O'Sullivan, et al. (2004). "Identification, detection, and spatial resolution of Clostridium populations responsible for cellulose degradation in a methanogenic landfill leachate bioreactor." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70(4): 2414-2419.

10.  Butt, K. R., C. N. Lowe, et al. (2004). "The development of sustainable earthworm populations at Calvert landfill site, UK." Land Degradation & Development 15(1): 27-36.

11.  Crossman, Z. M., F. Abraham, et al. (2004). "Stable isotope pulse-chasing and compound specific stable carbon isotope analysis of phospholipid fatty acids to assess methane oxidizing bacterial populations in landfill cover soils." Environ Sci Technol 38(5): 1359-1367.

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15.  Filho, E. S., R. de Souza e Silva, et al. (2003). "Levels of exposure to organochlorine pesticides in open-air dump dwellers." Revista de Saude Publica 37(4): 515-522.

16.  Fusconi, R. and M. J. L. Godinho (1999). "Bacteria and protozoa populations in groundwater in a landfill area in Sao Carlos, SP." Revista De Microbiologia 30(3): 196-202.

17.  Gonsebatt, M. E., A. M. Salazar, et al. (1995). "Genotoxic monitoring of workers at a hazardous waste disposal site in Mexico." Environ Health Perspect 103(SUPPL. 1): 111-113.

18.  Goulson, D., W. O. H. Hughes, et al. (1999). "Fly populations associated with landfill and composting sites used for household refuse disposal." Bulletin of Entomological Research 89(6): 493-498.

19.  Harrison, R. M. (2003). "Hazardous waste landfill sites and congenital anomalies." Occup Environ Med 60(2): 79-80.

20.  He, R., A. D. Ruan, et al. (2007). "Effects of methane on the microbial populations and oxidation rates in different landfill cover soil columns." Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part a-Toxic/Hazardous Substances & Environmental Engineering 42(6): 785-793.

21.  Higgs, G. and M. Langford (2009). "GIScience, environmental justice, & estimating populations at risk: The case of landfills in Wales." Applied Geography 29(1): 63-76.

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23.  Irvine, H. (2003). "Landfill sites: Is the risk of adverse birth outcomes really different in Scotland?" Scottish Medical Journal 48(4): 102-104.

24.  Irvine, H., H. Burns, et al. (2001). "Risk of adverse birth outcomes near landfill sites [1] (multiple letters)." British Medical Journal 323(7325): 1365-1366.

25.  Judd, K. W. and C. F. Mason (1995). "EARTHWORM POPULATIONS OF A RESTORED LANDFILL SITE." Pedobiologia 39(2): 107-115.

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27.  Khattabi, H., L. Aleya, et al. (2006). "Spatio-temporal distribution and characterisation of phytoplankton populations coupled with abiotic and biotic changes in landfill leachate treatment basins (Etuffont, Belfort, France)." Water Air and Soil Pollution 174(1-4): 107-125.

28.  Lay, J. Y., Y. Y. Li, et al. (1998). "Developments of bacterial population and methanogenic activity in a laboratory-scale landfill bioreactor." Water Research 32(12): 3673-3679.

29.  Ludvigsen, L., H. J. Albrechtsen, et al. (1999). "Distribution and composition of microbial populations in landfill leachate contaminated aquifer (Grindsted, Denmark)." Microbial Ecology 37(3): 197-207.

30.  Luo, T. W., Z. Y. Ouyang, et al. (2004). "[Carbon output through urban domestic garbage in Haikou]." Huan Jing Ke Xue 25(6): 154-158

31.  Luton, P. E., J. M. Wayne, et al. (2002). "The mcrA gene as an alternative to 16S rRNA in the phylogenetic analysis of methanogen populations in landfill." Microbiology-Sgm 148: 3521-3530.

32.  Mari, M., M. Nadal, et al. (2009). "Exposure to heavy metals and PCDD/Fs by the population living in the vicinity of a hazardous waste landfill in Catalonia, Spain: Health risk assessment." Environ Int 35(7): 1034-1039

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34.  Marumo, J. T., V. L. Isiki, et al. (2008). "Investigation of the radiation risk due to environmental contamination by 241Am from lightning rods disposed at uncontrolled garbage dumps." Radiat Environ Biophys 47(1): 131-137.

35.  McDonald, J. E., R. J. Lockhart, et al. (2008). "Detection of novel Fibrobacter populations in landfill sites and determination of their relative abundance via quantitative PCR." Environmental Microbiology 10(5): 1310-1319.

36.  McNamee, R. and H. Dolk (2001). "Does exposure to landfill waste harm the fetus?" British Medical Journal 323(7309): 351-352

37.  Nelson, M., S. H. Jones, et al. (2008). "Characterization of Escherichia coli populations from gulls, landfill trash, and wastewater using ribotyping." Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 81(1): 53-63.

38.  Nuckols, J. R., M. H. Ward, et al. (2004). "Using geographic information systems for exposure assessment in environmental epidemiology studies." Environ Health Perspect 112(9): 1007-1015.

39.  Rego Rde, C., M. L. Barreto, et al. (2002). "[What is garbage, anyway? The opinions of women from an outlying neighborhood in a large Brazilian city]." Cad Saude Publica 18(6): 1583-1591

40.  Roberts, D., A. Redfearn, et al. (2000). "Health effects of landfill sites (multiple letters)." British Medical Journal 320(7248): 1541-1542

41.  Sang, N. N., S. Soda, et al. (2009). "Effects of intermittent and continuous aeration on accelerative stabilization and microbial population dynamics in landfill bioreactors." Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering 108(4): 336-343.

42.  Sang, N. N., S. Soda, et al. (2008). "Effect of Aeration on Stabilization of Organic Solid Waste and Microbial Population Dynamics in Lab-Scale Landfill Bioreactors." Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering 106(5): 425-432.

43.  Staff, M. G. and H. Dolk (1998). "Landfill sites and congenital abnormalities (multiple letters) [3]." Lancet 352(9141): 1705.

44.  Taylor, J. A., A. Herr, et al. (2009). "The influence of distance from landfill and population density on degree of wood residue recycling in Australia." Biomass & Bioenergy 33(10): 1474-1480.

45.  Tian, Y. J., H. Yang, et al. (2005). "Variations of dominant microbial populations in groundwater in response to the leachate from Laogang Landfill." Journal of Environmental Sciences-China 17(1): 106-109

46.  Van Dyke, M. I. and A. J. McCarthy (2002). "Molecular biological detection and characterization of Clostridium populations in municipal landfill sites." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68(4): 2049-2053.

47.  Van Garde, S. J. and M. J. Woodburn (1987). "Food discard practices of householders." J Am Diet Assoc 87(3): 322-329.

48.  Vezhnevets, T. I. and L. N. Noskova (1976). "[Sanitary-hygienic assessment of solid household waste]." Gig Sanit(11): 96-97.

49.  Von Muhlendahl, K. E. (1999). "Uncontrolled replication: Hazardous landfill sites and congenital anomalies [2]." European Journal of Pediatrics 158(11): 950-951.

50.  Wui, S. U., K. Cho, et al. (2002). "Perturbations of population growth in a microcosm by industrial metal plating and ice cream mills wastewater and landfill leachate." Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 69(3): 401-407

51.  Zhang, D., T. S. Keat, et al. (2010). "A comparison of municipal solid waste management in Berlin and Singapore." Waste Manag 30(5): 921-933.

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