Description
Identifying contaminated sites involves systematically locating and assessing areas polluted by hazardous substances, such as chemicals, heavy metals, or waste. This strategy enables authorities to prioritize remediation efforts, prevent further environmental damage, and protect public health. Key actions include site surveys, sampling, risk assessment, and maintaining contamination inventories. By pinpointing affected locations, stakeholders can implement targeted clean-up measures, enforce regulations, and monitor progress, thereby reducing risks and restoring safe land use.
Context
Governments should establish and maintain inventories, including computerized inventories, of hazardous wastes and their treatment/disposal sites, as well as of contaminated sites that require rehabilitation, and assess the exposure and the risk to human health and the environment; they should also identify the measures required to clean up the disposal sites. Industry should make the necessary information available.
Implementation
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.
Broader
Value
SDG
Metadata
Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Subject
- Societal problems » Pollution
Content quality
Yet to rate
Language
English
1A4N
J4649
DOCID
12046490
D7NID
216900
Editing link
Official link
Last update
Dec 3, 2024