Environmental situation in the Republic of Armenia
Abstract
This paper presents the environmental situation in Armenia with particular reference to (1) air, water, and soil pollution; (2) common and photochemical smog in the capital city, Yerevan, and other major cities; (3) household and industrial waste; (4) distribution of contaminated food imported from regions affected by the Chernobyl accident; (5) wasteful depletion of natural resources; (6) lack of a continuous monitoring of the environment and the public health; (7) absence of filtering equipment, and; (8) the extinction of plant and animal species. Armenia is currently living under an economic blockade which makes even elementary environmental protection projects such as water treatment difficult to accomplish. Even more important, the blockade may force the opening of the Armenian nuclear reactors at Medzamor leading to questions such as waste management. Medzamor was closed after the 1988 earthquake because it is located on a fault line.
- Authors:
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- Armenian Academy of Science, Yerevan (Armenia). Inst. of Biochemistry
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 40129
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9410273-
TRN: IM9520%%324
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 15. annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Denver, CO (United States), 30 Oct - 3 Nov 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 15th annual meeting: Abstract book. Ecological risk: Science, policy, law, and perception; PB: 286 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 56 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, APPLIED STUDIES; ARMENIA; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; PHOTOCHEMICAL OXIDANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; FOOD CHAINS; CONTAMINATION; FALLOUT DEPOSITS; UPTAKE; MUNICIPAL WASTES; INDUSTRIAL WASTES; BIOLOGICAL EXTINCTION; POLITICAL ASPECTS
Citation Formats
Sanasarian, H A. Environmental situation in the Republic of Armenia. United States: N. p., 1994.
Web.
Sanasarian, H A. Environmental situation in the Republic of Armenia. United States.
Sanasarian, H A. 1994.
"Environmental situation in the Republic of Armenia". United States.
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abstractNote = {This paper presents the environmental situation in Armenia with particular reference to (1) air, water, and soil pollution; (2) common and photochemical smog in the capital city, Yerevan, and other major cities; (3) household and industrial waste; (4) distribution of contaminated food imported from regions affected by the Chernobyl accident; (5) wasteful depletion of natural resources; (6) lack of a continuous monitoring of the environment and the public health; (7) absence of filtering equipment, and; (8) the extinction of plant and animal species. Armenia is currently living under an economic blockade which makes even elementary environmental protection projects such as water treatment difficult to accomplish. Even more important, the blockade may force the opening of the Armenian nuclear reactors at Medzamor leading to questions such as waste management. Medzamor was closed after the 1988 earthquake because it is located on a fault line.},
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