The Role of the Oceans as a Waste Disposal Option [Paperback]

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Vilamoura, Portugal, April 24-30, 1985The oceans as a waste disposal option - management, decision making and policy.- Acceptable environmental change from waste disposal.- Natural variability and waste disposal options.- Basic factors affecting the land/freshwater versus the sea option for waste disposal.- Sewage treatment and disposal - constraints and opportunities.- Engineering of ocean outfalls.- Sewage sludge disposal options.- The environmental impact of sludge dumping at sea and other disposal options in the U.K. - trace metal inputs.- Freshwaters as waste disposal systems: An interpretation of the experimental lakes area, Canada whole-ecosystem experiments.- A comparison of aquatic and terrestrial nutrient cycling and production processes in natural ecosystems, with reference to ecological concepts of relevance to some waste disposal issues.- An integrated approach to analyse the North Sea ecosystem behaviour in relation to waste disposal.- Experiences of the Federal Republic of Germany with dumping of sewage sludge.- The Izmit Bay case study.- Sites for effluent outfall and sludge dumping in the Saronikos Gulf, Greece.- A comparative study of copper cycles in two freshwater environments.- A case study of waste inputs in the Tagus Estuary.- The Baltic Sea: Conditions and options of management.- Ecological and human health criteria for cross ecosystem comparison of waste disposal impacts.- Organic chemical pollutants in the oceans and groundwater: A review of fundamental chemical properties and biogeochemistry.- Organo-chlorines - A review of uses, control and disposal options.- Metal pollution in the Great Lakes in relation to their carrying capacity.- Marine disposal of radioactive waste: An overview with examples from the coastal water situation.- The practice and assessment of sea dumping of radioactive waste.- Comparison of land and sea disposal options for low and intermediate level radioactive wastelÃr