The History, Use, Disposition and Environmental Fate of Agent Orange

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Young, Alvin Lee (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Public health.; Environmental management.; Ecotoxicology.; Environmental Management.; Public Health.

For almost four decades, controversy has surrounded the tactical use of herbicides in Southeast Asia by the United States military. Few environmental or occupational health issues have received the sustained international attention that has been focused on Agent Orange, the major tactical herbicide...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Vietnam and the Agent Orange Controversy Revisited
• A History of the Development and Procurement of Tactical Herbicides
• The Military Use of Tactical Herbicides in Vietnam
• Removal from Vietnam and Final Disposition of Agent Orange
• Agent Orange and its Dioxin Contamination
• The Testing of Aerial Spray Equipment, and Ecological Impacts of the Programs at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida
• Monitoring Studies of Former Agent Orange Storage Sites in Mississippi and Johnston Island
• Agent Orange and Dioxin Remediation and the Return to Vietnam.