Pollution Management Strategies

Key Questions
1. What challenges does each type of pollution present?
2. Why?
3. What can be or is being done?

Three level model
-Human activity producing pollutants
+Altering human activity through education, incentives, and penalties to promote:
*Development of alternative technology
*Adoption of alternative lifestyles
*Reducing, reusing, recycling

-Release of pollutants into environment
+ Regulating and reducing point of emissions
*Standards
*Measures to extract pollutants from emissions

-Long-term impact of pollutants on ecosystem
+ Cleaning up pollutants and restoring ecosystems
*Extracting and removing pollutants from ecosystem
*Replanting and restocking animal populations