Problem
Lack of integrated pollution control
Other Names:
Inadequate systems of pollution management Nature:
Integrated pollution control is an approach to pollution control which recognizes the need to look at the environment as a whole, so that solution to particular problems take account of potential effects upon all environmental media.
Incidence:
In the USA, Amoco and the Environmental Protection Agency did a thorough study of one refinery in Yorktown, Virginia, to discover what pollutants came out from it and how dangerous each was. Their conclusion was that some of the things that Amoco and other refiners were required to do by EPA regulations were less effective than alternatives; meanwhile, pollution from many sources that government does not regulate could have been decreased. The study group concluded that for one fourth of the amount that it currently spends on pollution control, Amoco could achieve the same effect in protection of health and the environment – just by spending money where it made a difference, rather than where government dictated.
Broader Problems:
Lack of controlEnvironmental pollution Narrower Problems:
Reluctance to impose pollution taxesFailure to apply polluter pays principleInadequate legislation against environmental pollution Aggravates:
Retrospective pollution liabilityExceeding critical pollution loadsEnvironmental hazards in daily lifeEnvironmental hazards of industrialization Strategies:
Managing resources holisticallyApplying polluter-pays principleIntegrating pollution control and biodiversity conservationExchanging information on control technologies for transboundary air pollutionInvolving local communities in pollution controlMonitoring pollution controlProviding integrated pollution controlAbstaining from integrated pollution control Subject(s):
Cybernetics → Control→ Systems
Management → Management
Societal Problems → Inadequacy
Societal Problems → Pollution
Societal Problems → Scarcity
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
C: Cross-sectoral problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST