MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF DOMIZIO FLEGREO AND AGRO AVERSANO AREA (CAMPANIA REGION, ITALY). BASELINES, ISOTOPIC RATIOS AND ADVANCED HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT

This thesis introduces the research activities and results of the environmental studies on different areas of Campania region during my PhD programme from 2013 to 2016 at the Department of Earth, Environmental and Resources Science of University of Naples †˜Federico II' under the supervision of Prof. S. Albanese, Prof. A. Lima and Prof. B. De Vivo. The PhD project is focused on Domizio- Flegreo Littoral and Agro Aversano area, which are of continuous environmental concern due to documented illegal dumping and burning of waste since the early 1990s. This area is also characterised by a high degree of urbanization and by a continuously changing land-use patterns (Rezza et al., 2017). The aim of this study is the geochemical characterisation of the study area even trough an isotopic approach to define the actual degree of the environmental contamination, the sources that have caused it, and to improve the knowledge of the main pathways followed by contaminants to diffuse throughout the different environmental media.