Abstract
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) monitoring and management in typical semi-enclosed bays is a major global environmental issue. This study concentrated on a questionnaire survey and analysis of marine environmental management and monitoring departments at all levels in China, and proposed suggestions on the construction and improvement of POPs monitoring and management system. Results show that POPs are initially involved in China’s current marine environmental monitoring system, and the monitoring strength and capability still need to be continuously improved, mainly in the recognition, funding input, relevant standards, monitoring, and evaluation technical regulations of marine environmental POPs monitoring. Therefore, in order to gradually improve the monitoring and management system of China’s offshore marine environment POPs, this study suggests starting from four directions: (1) Building POPs monitoring system of a marine ecological environment, and strengthening POPs monitoring in different environmental media; (2) strengthening land-based POPs emission and the related human activities’ intensity survey, and establishing a POPs information sharing database; (3) optimizing POPs monitoring technology in the marine environment, and improving POPs supervision and management technical support system; and (4) participating in regional and international marine environment POPs monitoring and evaluation projects, and strengthening the construction of talent teams.
Highlights
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are chemicals with semi-volatile, persistent in the environment, bio-accumulative, and highly toxic properties, which can migrate over long distances through various environmental media, such as air, water, soil, and sediments, and will cause serious harm to human health and the environment [1]
POPs, which is when developed countries banned the use of highly toxic pesticides, and the public and scientists started to become concerned about their influence on humans and environments [30,31,32]
In order to explore perceived barriers to implementing POPs monitoring in China’s marine environment, we investigated the perceptions of stakeholders who are represented by key groups of first-line staff and experts in marine environmental monitoring and research in China
Summary
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are chemicals with semi-volatile, persistent in the environment, bio-accumulative, and highly toxic properties, which can migrate over long distances through various environmental media, such as air, water, soil, and sediments, and will cause serious harm to human health and the environment [1]. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 3083 hazards disclosed by pollution incidents and research papers, the international society gradually began to take a series of control measures to regulate and control the production and use of toxic chemicals [3,4,5]. On the basis of a lot of monitoring and research on POPs pollution levels in various environmental media, some challenges and threats to the implementation efficiency and future development of international conventions, as well as to the monitoring and management of POPs by governments, still exist. At last, existing problems are identified, and relative development measures and suggestions are given in order to provide valuable scientific and management suggestions for the improvement of the marine POPs monitoring system
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