Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution Gerald Markowotz David Rosner

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-115
Author(s):  
Craig Colten
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Pollution

A simple test for monitoring biodegradable industrial pollution in a receiving stream

1999 ◽  
Vol 39 (10-11) ◽  
pp. 221-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Zagorc-Končan ◽  
J. Šömen
Keyword(s):  
Hazard Assessment ◽  
Industrial Pollution ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Oxygen Demand ◽  
Organic Pollution ◽  
Organic Substances ◽  
Simple Test ◽  
Industrial Pollutants ◽  
Model Substances ◽  
Receiving Stream

Microbial purification capacity is an important factor in natural self-regulation in water. Evaluating the fate of biodegradable organic pollution downstream from the discharge seems an appropriate way to follow the effect of pollution and its hazard assessment, which dictates the needed sanitation measures. We suggest a simple test for such monitoring. A modification of the additional oxygen demand test, standardised in Ausgewählte Methoden der Wasseruntersuchung, was applied in two river case studies. The additional oxygen demand is a measure of the capability and rate of biodegradation of known organic substance as well as of the amount and activity of heterotrophic organisms in the river. The original test using peptone and glucose as additional feedings of BOD samples was modified by the use of other organic biodegradable model substances characteristic for individual industrial pollutants. The test was found to be an excellent indicator of adapted microorganisms, which are essential for the biodegradation of the appointed organic substances downstream of their discharge into the receiving stream.

The Historiography of Environmental History

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. McNeill
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Industrial Pollution ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the emergence of environmental history, which developed in the context of the environmental concerns that began in the 1960s with worries about local industrial pollution, but which has since evolved into a full-scale global crisis of climate change. Environmental history is ‘the history of the relationship between human societies and the rest of nature’. It includes three chief areas of inquiry: the study of material environmental history, political and policy-related environmental history, and a form of environmental history which concerns what humans have thought, believed, written, and more rarely, painted, sculpted, sung, or danced that deals with the relationship between society and nature. Since 1980, environmental history has come to flourish in many corners of the world, and scholars everywhere have found models, approaches, and perspectives rather different from those developed for the US context.

The Foundations of Civil Liability for Industrial Pollution

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-246
Author(s):  
David Messner
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Pollution ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Strict Liability ◽  
Civil Liability ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Industrial Facilities

Abstract In European private law, operators of industrial facilities, power plants and other sites using special substances or procedures are made responsible for harm caused by pollution even where it is doubtful that such harmdoing is unreasonable or could have been foreseen. Analysing both fault-based and strict liability, the author discusses legal bases for this liability and its justification in European jurisdictions.

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