tailieunhanh - Coastal Pollution: Effects on Living Resources and Humans - Chapter 12

Ảnh hưởng của ô nhiễm ven biển trên con người Tôi Bắt đầu cuốn sách này với tám chương (chín Trên thực tế, kể con quái vật trong đoạn mở đầu của bùn) Mô tả Một số con người tạo ra nỗi kinh hoàng dưới đáy biển. Trong trường hợp Bạn có Đã Quên, Họ là bệnh tả, ngộ độc thủy ngân, PCB nhiễm bẩn, ô nhiễm bãi biển, tảo độc, anoxia, ô nhiễm dầu, và cuộc xâm lược của sinh vật ngoại lai. . | Section III Effects of Coastal Pollution on Humans I began this book with eight chapters actually nine counting the sludge monster in the prologue describing some man-made undersea horrors. In case you have already forgotten they are cholera mercury poisoning PCB contamination polluted ocean beaches toxic algae anoxia oil pollution and invasions by alien species. That was the frosting. Then in Part 2 I examined the effects of coastal pollution on marine animals with special consideration of effects on fish and shellfish population abundance and a short chapter on pollution effects on marine mammals. We are now as ready as we will ever be to consider in Part 3 the effects of coastal pollution on humans. This key area of concern impacts on humans deserves further review here even though it has been given some cursory attention in several earlier chapters. The human species is fortunate to have survived thus far in its short and brutish existence with only a few known episodes of mass disabilities and deaths caused by industrial pollution of coastal estuarine waters. Of those the one that has received greatest attention occurred in and around the city of Minamata in southern Japan almost half a century ago. We examined that dreadful period of human suffering in Chapter 2 mercury poisoning resulting from eating contaminated seafood. The genuine horror story of the effects of mercury contamination in Minamata Bay illustrates better than most examples can the multiple consequences of coastal pollution to humans. Three principal kinds of impacts are apparent in this historical tale of pollution-associated disease effects that can be discerned to varying degrees in other pollution events wherever they occur as 211 2006 by Taylor Francis Group LLC 212 Coastal Pollution Effects on Living Resources and Humans Effects on human health Economic impacts Effects on the quality of human life Effects of pollution on public health are the most visible consequences and the ones given