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DeCS
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Descriptor English:
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Transboundary Pollution
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Descriptor Spanish:
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contaminación transfronteriza
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Descriptor Portuguese:
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Poluição Transfronteiriça
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Synonyms English:
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Transfrontier Contamination
Transfrontier Pollution
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Tree Number:
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SP4.011.087.703
SP8.473.654.587.477.413
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Definition English:
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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:
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Acid Rain
Frontier Water
Pollutants Transport
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Allowable Qualifiers English:
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Record Number:
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35131
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Occurrence in VHL:
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Similar:
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DeCS
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