Air pollution and some aspects of the ecotoxicological situation in Czechoslovakia
| Autor: | V. Mejstřík |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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Pollutant
Environmental Engineering Environmental engineering Air pollution Heavy metals Biota medicine.disease_cause Pollution Hazard Industrialisation Environmental protection Hazardous waste medicine Environmental Chemistry Environmental science Waste Management and Disposal Environmental quality |
| Zdroj: | Science of The Total Environment. 134:207-215 |
| ISSN: | 0048-9697 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0048-9697(05)80020-8 |
| Popis: | Data from measurements at different air pollution stations in Central Europe indicate that Czechoslovakia, Poland and the former GDR receive a steady flux of different pollutants (SO2, NOx, O3, and heavy metals) from the atmosphere. These pollutants are emitted by power plants, metallurgic plants, steel mills and several other sources. The policy of extensive industrialization ignored some important ecological factors. This creates the hazardous situation of long-term exposure of biota to numerous toxic substances. Degradation of environmental quality causes adverse health effects, which affects the psychological condition of man. More than 80% of gaseous contaminants in Czechoslovakia come from power plants and industrial stations located in areas of ecological hazard. These areas cover in total about 30% of the surface of country. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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