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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. Kg
ISBN-13
9783642078378
eBay Product ID (ePID)
178356717
Product Key Features
Author
Heidelore Fiedler
Publication Name
Persistent Organic Pollutants
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Geology, Management
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
445 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Volume
3 / 3o
Item Weight
706g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Anthropogenic Compounds
Editor
Heidelore Fiedler
Country/Region of Manufacture
Germany
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