Mercury Pollution in Minamata [electronic resource]

• Tác giả: Hisashi Yokoyama
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-9811073922
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 363.737 Measures to prevent, protect against, limit effects of pollution
• Thông tin xuất bản: Singapore : Springer Nature, 2018
• Mô tả vật lý: IX, 67 p. 18 illus., 13 illus. in color. , online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 200432
• Chủ đề: 1. Communication; 2. Ecotoxicology; 3. Environmental sciences; 4. Environmental sociology; 5. Industrial management-Environmental aspects; 6. Pollution prevention; 7. Water pollution; 8. Industrial Pollution Prevention; 9. Corporate Environmental Management; 11. Environmental Communication; 12. Environmental Sociology; 13. Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution

Tóm tắt

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. It overviews the poisoning which occurred in the 1950s and 1960s among the residents in Minamata who ate seafood contaminated with methylmercury discharged from the chemical factory, Chisso Corporation. It describes the history, symptoms pathogenesis and research on the causal agent, and discusses the responses of Chisso and the national and local governments to the outbreak, the victims, the compensation and environmental restructuring as well as the court ruling on claims. Based on lecture notes from a university course, it includes students' suggestions for avoiding a repeat of the tragedy. The issue has not been settled yet, and this analysis of the incident provides useful insights into solutions to the current global mercury pollution problem. .