Soil and Groundwater Pollution: Fundamentals, Risk Assessment and Legislation: 4 (Soil & Environment) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0792337433 ISBN 13: 9780792337430

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995

Synopsis

SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, was established by the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) in 1969 as an international, non­ to governmental, non-profit organisation with the mandate - advance knowledge of the influence of humans on their environment, as well as the effects of these environmental changes upon people, their health and their welfare­ with particular attention to those influences and effects which are either global or shared by several nations; - to serve as a non-governmental, interdisciplinary and international council of scien­ tists and as a source of advice for the benefit of governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental bodies with respect to environmental problems. SCOPE has been established because critical environmental concerns call for a thor­ ough evaluation of the issues at stake, an assessment of their consequences at global and regional levels and the formulation of possible solutions. Through its activities SCOPE identifies available knowledge, then synthesizing it to point out where gaps and uncertainties exist, and to recommend where efforts should be concentrated to develop explanations and solutions.

About this title

Synopsis

The pollution of groundwater as a result of soil pollution has long been treated as a minor problem, either because the necessary analytical apparatus was not available or because the extent of the pollution has been largely underestimated. It was only the incidents at Love Canal in the USA and at Lekkerkerk in the Netherlands that alerted governmental authorities and scientists to groundwater and soil pollution. Concerned as they were with this problem, The Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), together with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG), commissioned this book, the proceedings of the SCOPE Workshop on Soil and Groundwater Pollution, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic, June 6-7, 1994, which specifically focuses on soil and groundwater pollution in Central and Eastern Europe. The book is not just limited to scientific issues; it also encompasses the legal and the risk issues.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792337433
• ISBN 13: 9780792337430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164
• Editor: Zehnder Alexander J.B.