Naslov
Concepts of marine specimen banking

Autori
Rossbach, Matthias ; Kniewald, Goran

Izvornik
Chemosphere (0045-6535) 34 (1997), 9-10; 1997-2010

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
environmental specimen banking; marine specimen banking

Sažetak
For more than a decade environmental specimen baking (ESB) has been an established approach for monitoring and retrospective environmental survey purposes in a number of developed countris. Specimen banking is carried out on regional or national scales for various eenvironmental materials. The ecological or problem-oriented approach, as pursued e.g. in Germanyor USA has the advantages of a restricted survey and a clear political mandate. Evironmental problems, however, are by no means national or regional issues, since the diversity and dispersion of hazardous substances make environmental monitoring clearly a global affair. The structuring of our environment suggests that banking should not be limited by national boundaries, but rather be based on eco-systematic primciples. Such distrinct banking efforts shoudl be devoted to the monitoring of physicochemical aspects of climatic change and air pollution, soil quality monitoring on a world-wide scale. As some experience already exists with specialized banking programs for marine samples, such as the National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank or the Mussel Watch Program in the United States, as international marine specimen bank, based on principles of national ESBs, is advocated to be established in due time. Following the recommendations of the 1992 Rio "Earth Summit" to pursue sustainable development strategies, such an establishment could strongly facilitate efforts concerning polluted control and mitigation, overexploitation and mining of ocean resources on a regional or global scale.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kemija

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