Persistent Organic Pollutants (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003)

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 by long half-lives, persistence in the environment, they undergo long-range transport, accumulate in the environment and in biota, and they are toxic. The combination of these characteristics makes them a threat at the global level. This book makes the reader familiar with the goals of these two conventions, lays out characteristics of these compounds, presents results from case studies and addresses inventories, levels in humans and the environment as well as technologies to destroy them.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Anthropogenic Compounds, 3 / 3O
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	2003
Editors:	Heidelore Fiedler
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	445
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-07837-8
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Pharmacology > General Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Environmental medicine > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > General Promotions
LSN:	3-642-07837-0
Barcode:	9783642078378

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