Characterization of a pollution source with isotopic and physicochemical measurements using a forensic metrology approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Cristina Barazetti Barbieri ◽  
J. E. S. Sarkis ◽  
L. F. Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Pollution Source ◽  
Physicochemical Measurements

Characterization of an old municipal landfill (Grindsted, Denmark) as a groundwater pollution source: landfill hydrology and leachate migration

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kjeldsen ◽  
Poul L. Bjerg ◽  
Kirsten Rügge ◽  
Thomas H. Christensen ◽  
Jørn K. Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Pollution ◽  
Pollution Source ◽  
Municipal Landfill

16. Waste Regulation

2019 ◽  
pp. 517-560
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fisher ◽  
Bettina Lange ◽  
Eloise Scotford
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Pollution Source ◽  
Secondary Markets ◽  
Pollution Problem ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Fundamental Tension ◽  
Potential Pollution

This chapter focuses on waste regulation and how the notion of ‘waste’, which can give rise to serious environmental and health problems, is a legally constructed one. Unlike other pollution control regimes, waste regulation is focused on an identified pollution source, which is defined and characterized in legal terms. The chapter shows how difficult it can be to make the legal distinction between waste and non-waste. In regulating waste, there is a fundamental tension between minimizing the polluting impacts of waste (making waste a firm focus for regulation), and encouraging secondary markets that promote discarded material as a resource rather than a potential pollution problem (where ‘waste’ can be a poor characterization of material). Legal disputes over the definition of waste and how waste should be regulated are grappling with this policy tension in an increasingly circular economy for natural resources.

An almost-parameter-free harmony search algorithm for groundwater pollution source identification

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (11) ◽  
pp. 2359-2366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simin Jiang ◽  
Yali Zhang ◽  
Pei Wang ◽  
Maohui Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Pollution ◽  
Source Identification ◽  
Search Algorithm ◽  
Harmony Search ◽  
Identification Problem ◽  
Pollution Source ◽  
Harmony Search Algorithm ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
Pollution Source Identification

The spatiotemporal characterization of unknown sources of groundwater pollution is frequently encountered in environmental problems. This study adopts a simulation–optimization approach that combines a contaminant transport simulation model with a heuristic harmony search algorithm to identify unknown pollution sources. In the proposed methodology, an almost-parameter-free harmony search algorithm is developed. The performance of this methodology is evaluated on an illustrative groundwater pollution source identification problem, and the identified results indicate that the proposed almost-parameter-free harmony search algorithm-based optimization model can give satisfactory estimations, even when the irregular geometry, erroneous monitoring data, and prior information shortage of potential locations are considered.

Spatiotemporal characterization of nutrient pollution source compositions in the Xiaohong River Basin, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 105676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruimin He ◽  
Xiaoying Yang ◽  
Philip W. Gassman ◽  
Guoqing Wang ◽  
Chenyangzi Yu
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Pollution Source ◽  
Nutrient Pollution
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