Persistent Organic Pollutants

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fiedler, Heidelore (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Anthropogenic Compounds, 3 / 3O
• Subjects: Environmental management.; Environmental pollution.; Environmental health.; Pharmacology.; Environmental Management.; Terrestrial Pollution.; Environmental Health.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

Since the mid 1990s, legal action to eliminate persistent organic pollutants (POPs) has started resulting in a global Convention on POPs, the Stockholm Convention, and a regional Protocol under the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (UN-ECE LRTAP Convention). POPs are characterized...