Quad. V – Guidelines on the Shoreline Clean-up Assessment Technique (SCAT)
The booklets on environmental emergencies at sea
These new guidelines, one concerning the kit oil spill responders should have at hand while going on the coast and at sea to collect samples, the other devoted to the Shoreline Clean-up Assessment Technique (SCAT), are part of the series "The Environmental Emergency Sea booklets that have been produced by the ISPRA with the Italian Ministry of the Environment and the Protection of the Territory and the Sea.
In particular, this guideline illustrates the most effective techniques, methods and tools for taking and storing samples, identifying those stretches of coast where to concentrate efforts on cleaning actions, suggesting ways of intervention and supporting the reasons for compensation actions, where possible.
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