Open AccessCONTROLLED POLLUTION BUFFER ZONE – AN APPROACH TO WASTE MANAGEMENT
Author(s) -
Kahn Peter B.,
Zarmi Yair
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
natural resource modeling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.28
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1939-7445
pISSN - 0890-8575
DOI - 10.1111/j.1939-7445.1990.tb00215.x
Subject(s) - pollution , buffer (optical fiber) , environmental science , buffer zone , leakage (economics) , diffusion , water quality , degradation (telecommunications) , water pollution , environmental engineering , water resource management , chemistry , computer science , environmental chemistry , geography , ecology , economics , telecommunications , physics , macroeconomics , archaeology , biology , thermodynamics
We consider pollution that arises from the leakage of a container into a contiguous water region. It is shown that if one considers this to be an “effective diffusion” process, the creation of a “Controlled Pollution Buffer Zone” significantly decreases the degradation of the water quality in the adjacent region.