Persistent Organic Pollutants

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Fiedler, Heidelore (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2003.
• Σειρά: Anthropogenic Compounds, 3 / 3O
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Keith Bull: Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-range-trans-boundary Air Pollution on Persistant Organic Pollutants; The 1998 Agreement for the UN/ECE region
• John Buccini: The Development of a Global Treaty on Persistant Organic Pollutants (POPs)
• Bo Wahlström: Criteria for Additional New POPs
• Vladimir Zitko: Chlorinated Pesticides: Aldrin, DDT, Endrin, Dieldrin, Mirex
• Vladimir Zitko: Hexachlorbenzene
• Heidelore Fiedler: -Dioxins + Furans (PCDD/PCDF)
• Patrick H. Dyke: Releases of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans to land and water and with products
• Stephen Safe: Toxicology and Risk Assessment of POPs
• Frank Wania, Martin Scheringer: Multimedia Models for Global Transport and Fate
• Olaf Päpke, Peter Fürst: Background Contamination of Humans with Dioxin, Dioxin-Like PCB and other banjo: Organochlorines in Nigeria and the African Region
• Ming H. Wong: Sources, fates and Effects of Persistant Organic Pollutants in China, with Emphasis on the Pearl River Delta
• Fernando Diaz-Barriga et al: DDT in Mexico
• Hans-Ulrich Hartenstein: Dioxin and Furan Reduction Technologies for Combustion and Industrial Thermal Process Facilities
• Ian D. Rae: Alternative Technologies for Destruction of PCB and other POPs.