Stockpiles of Obsolete Pesticides and Cleanup Priorities : A Methodology and Application for Tunisia
Obsolete pesticides have accumulated in almost every developing country or economy in transition over the past several decades. Public health and environmental authorities are eager to reduce health threats by removing and decontaminating stockpile...
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okr-10986-40862021-04-23T14:02:15Z Stockpiles of Obsolete Pesticides and Cleanup Priorities : A Methodology and Application for Tunisia Dasgupta, Susmita Meisner, Craig Wheeler, David ABATEMENT AGED AGRICULTURE ANNUAL REPORT BG BIODIVERSITY BS CA CHILDBEARING CLEANUP CLUSTERING CONTAINERS CONTAMINATED SOIL CS DECONTAMINATION DESCRIPTION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES EDIBLE CROPS ENVIRONMENTAL AUTHORITIES ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE EXPIRATION DATE GA GI GROUNDWATER HAZARD HAZARDS HUMAN LIFE INDICES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NATURAL DISASTERS ORDERING PACKAGING PESTICIDE PESTICIDES POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLLUTION POPULATION GROUPS POPULATION INFORMATION PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH REPOSITORY RESOURCE ALLOCATION RISK FACTORS SITE SITES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TOXIC SUBSTANCES TREATMENT VULNERABILITY WASTE MANAGEMENT WATER CONTAMINATION WEB WOMEN OF CHILDBEARING AGE Obsolete pesticides have accumulated in almost every developing country or economy in transition over the past several decades. Public health and environmental authorities are eager to reduce health threats by removing and decontaminating stockpile sites, but there are many sites, cleanup can be costly, and public resources are scarce. Under these conditions, it seems sensible to develop a methodology for prioritizing sites and treating them sequentially, as budgetary resources permit. This paper presents a methodology that develops cleanup priority indices for Tunisia. The approach integrates information on populations at risk, their proximity to stockpiles, and the relative toxic hazards of the stockpiles. The robustness of this approach is tested by varying model parameters widely and testing for stability in the rank-ordering of results. 2012-03-19T19:09:45Z 2012-03-19T19:09:45Z 2009-04-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20090406112723 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4086 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4893 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Middle East and North Africa Tunisia |
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ABATEMENT AGED AGRICULTURE ANNUAL REPORT BG BIODIVERSITY BS CA CHILDBEARING CLEANUP CLUSTERING CONTAINERS CONTAMINATED SOIL CS DECONTAMINATION DESCRIPTION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES EDIBLE CROPS ENVIRONMENTAL AUTHORITIES ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE EXPIRATION DATE GA GI GROUNDWATER HAZARD HAZARDS HUMAN LIFE INDICES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NATURAL DISASTERS ORDERING PACKAGING PESTICIDE PESTICIDES POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLLUTION POPULATION GROUPS POPULATION INFORMATION PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH REPOSITORY RESOURCE ALLOCATION RISK FACTORS SITE SITES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TOXIC SUBSTANCES TREATMENT VULNERABILITY WASTE MANAGEMENT WATER CONTAMINATION WEB WOMEN OF CHILDBEARING AGE |
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ABATEMENT AGED AGRICULTURE ANNUAL REPORT BG BIODIVERSITY BS CA CHILDBEARING CLEANUP CLUSTERING CONTAINERS CONTAMINATED SOIL CS DECONTAMINATION DESCRIPTION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES EDIBLE CROPS ENVIRONMENTAL AUTHORITIES ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE EXPIRATION DATE GA GI GROUNDWATER HAZARD HAZARDS HUMAN LIFE INDICES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NATURAL DISASTERS ORDERING PACKAGING PESTICIDE PESTICIDES POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLLUTION POPULATION GROUPS POPULATION INFORMATION PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH REPOSITORY RESOURCE ALLOCATION RISK FACTORS SITE SITES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TOXIC SUBSTANCES TREATMENT VULNERABILITY WASTE MANAGEMENT WATER CONTAMINATION WEB WOMEN OF CHILDBEARING AGE Dasgupta, Susmita Meisner, Craig Wheeler, David Stockpiles of Obsolete Pesticides and Cleanup Priorities : A Methodology and Application for Tunisia |
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Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4893 |
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Obsolete pesticides have accumulated in
almost every developing country or economy in transition
over the past several decades. Public health and
environmental authorities are eager to reduce health threats
by removing and decontaminating stockpile sites, but there
are many sites, cleanup can be costly, and public resources
are scarce. Under these conditions, it seems sensible to
develop a methodology for prioritizing sites and treating
them sequentially, as budgetary resources permit. This paper
presents a methodology that develops cleanup priority
indices for Tunisia. The approach integrates information on
populations at risk, their proximity to stockpiles, and the
relative toxic hazards of the stockpiles. The robustness of
this approach is tested by varying model parameters widely
and testing for stability in the rank-ordering of results. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Dasgupta, Susmita Meisner, Craig Wheeler, David |
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Dasgupta, Susmita Meisner, Craig Wheeler, David |
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Dasgupta, Susmita |
| title |
Stockpiles of Obsolete Pesticides and Cleanup Priorities : A Methodology and Application for Tunisia |
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Stockpiles of Obsolete Pesticides and Cleanup Priorities : A Methodology and Application for Tunisia |
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Stockpiles of Obsolete Pesticides and Cleanup Priorities : A Methodology and Application for Tunisia |
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Stockpiles of Obsolete Pesticides and Cleanup Priorities : A Methodology and Application for Tunisia |
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Stockpiles of Obsolete Pesticides and Cleanup Priorities : A Methodology and Application for Tunisia |
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stockpiles of obsolete pesticides and cleanup priorities : a methodology and application for tunisia |
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2012 |
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