Stockpiles of obsolete pesticides and cleanup priorities
Subtitle: a methodology and application for tunisia
By: Susmita Dasgupta, Craig Meisner, David Wheeler.
Contributors: Meisner, Craig.; Wheeler, David.; World Bank.
Series: Policy research working paper -- 4893; Policy research working papers (Online) -- 4893.
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Public health administration -- Tunisia; Environmental health -- Tunisia
Description: "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. "--World Bank web site.
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