Monday, January 24, 2011

Challenges in Pollution Management

Three level model:
  • Human activity producing pollutant
    • Altering human activity through education, incentives and penalties to promote :
      • Development of alternative tech
      • Adoption of alternative lifestyles
      • Reducing, reusing and recycling
  • Release of pollutant into environment
    • Regulating and reducing points of emission:
      • Standards
      • Measure to extract pollutants from emissions
  • Long-term impact of pollutant on ecosystem
    • Cleaning up pollutant and restoring ecosystems
      • Extracting and removing pollutant from an ecosystem
      • Replanting and restocking animal populations

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