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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
:
adverse effects
analysis
classification
economics
ethics
ethnology
history
legislation & jurisprudence
methods
prevention & control
policies
statistics & numerical data
Record Number:
35131
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