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Multiple and Dispersed Impacts — Acid Rain (USA/Canada), the Thames Estuary (England)

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If point impacts (see Chaps. 2–6) are clustered together, they create larger scale problems of multiple and dispersed impacts (Fig. 8.1). Inland seas such as the Mediterranean, Chesapeake Bay, the Gulf of Iran, all suffer both. The problems are regional, and the risk must be assessed and controlled by co-operation between agencies. Many estuaries suffer in the same way but on a smaller scale.

“The Sub-Committee regrets that the Ministry of Environment of Quebec chose not to attend our public hearings in Montreal and provide us with information on the acid rain problems in that province” (Anonymous a).

“In order to test the degree of opacity, I tore up some white cards into pieces… before they had sunk an inch below the surface they were indistinguishable, though the sun shone brightly at the time, and when the pieces fell edgeways the lower part was hidden from sight before the upper part was under water” Michael Faraday (1855).

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Ellis, D. (1989). Multiple and Dispersed Impacts — Acid Rain (USA/Canada), the Thames Estuary (England). In: Environments at Risk. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74772-4_8

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