Decision-making tools for accidental pollution management of rivers: toward sustainable solutions

Abstract

Industries regularly interface with natural environment. The natural environment is often impacted when accidental industrial pollution occurs. Classical procedure makes use of physico-chemical analyses to state the pollution of the environment. However, diagnosis on the living is often neglected in this inventory. The authors suggest an approach adapted to rivers to identify the impacts on the living. This approach may be a decisional tool for field operationals and a first step towards rehabilitation or ecological restoration of environment.