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Descriptor
English
:
Transboundary Pollution
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Contaminación Transfronteriza
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Poluição Transfronteiriça
Synonyms
English
:
Transfrontier Pollution
Transfrontier Contamination
Tree Number:
SP4.011.087.703
SP8.473.654.587.477.413
Definition
English
:
Pollution and
pollutants
that have been produced in one country and that have passed international boundaries through water or air to other countries, causing pollution. The effects can be mitigated only through
international agreements
as the damage is caused outside the boundaries of the victim country (Material V - Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual
Dictionary
of
Disaster Medicine
and International Relief, 1990)
See Related
English
:
Acid Rain
Frontier Water
Pollutants Transport
Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
AE
adverse effects
AN
analysis
CL
classification
EC
economics
ES
ethics
EH
ethnology
HI
history
LJ
legislation & jurisprudence
MT
methods
PL
policies
PC
prevention & control
SN
statistics & numerical data
Record Number:
35131
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