Northern lights against POPs : combatting toxic threats in the Arctic

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Corporate Author: Inuit Circumpolar Conference
Other Authors: Fenge, Terry, 1950-, Downie, David Leonard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal : Published for the Inuit Circumpolar Conference Canada by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003
Subjects:
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants > (2001)
Persistent pollutants > Health aspects > Arctic regions.
Organic compounds > Health aspects > Arctic regions.
Persistent pollutants > Environmental aspects > Arctic regions.
Organic compounds > Environmental aspects > Arctic regions.
Environmental monitoring.
Environmental Pollutants > adverse effects
Environmental Monitoring
Organic Chemicals > adverse effects
Pesticides > adverse effects
Arctic regions > Environmental conditions.
Arctic Regions
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / David Anderson, Klaus Töpfer
  • Acknowledgments / David Leonard Downie, Terry Fenge
  • Introduction
  • 1. Persistent organic pollutants : global poisons threaten the North
  • POPs, the environment, and public health / Eric Dewailly and Christopher Furgal
  • Canadian Arctic indigenous peoples, traditional food systems, and POPs / Harriet V. Kuhnlein, Laurie H.M. Chan, Grace Egeland, Oliver Receveur
  • Canadian research and POPs : the Northern Contaminants Program / Russel Shearer and Siu-Ling Han
  • Circumpolar perspectives on persistent organic pollutants : the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme / Lars-Otto Reiersen, Simon Wilson, and Vitaly Kimstach
  • The deposition of airborne dioxin emitted by North American sources on ecologically vulnerable receptors in Nunavut / Barry Commoner, Paul Woods Bartlett, Kimberly Couchot, and Holger Eisl
  • 2. Regional and global POPs policy
  • Regional POPs policy : the UNECE CLRTAP POPs protocol / Henrik Selin
  • Global POPs policy : the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants / David Leonard Downie
  • The Stockholm Convention in the context of international law / Nigel Bankes
  • POPs and Inuit : influencing the global agenda / Terry Fenge
  • POPs in Alaska : engaging the United States / Henry P. Huntington and Michelle Sparck
  • The long and winding road to Stockholm : the view from the chair / John Anthony Buccini
  • The Inuit journey towards a POPs-free world / Sheila Watt-Cloutier
  • Contributors
  • POPs science and policy : a brief northern lights timeline / David Downie and Mike Kraft
  • Glossary of terms and concepts : POPs and international negotiations / compiled by David Leonard Downie and Victoria Elman
  • The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

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