Persistent Organic Pollutants Environmental Behaviour and Pathways of Human Exposure

Persistent Organic Pollutants Environmental Behaviour and Pathways of Human Exposure / edited by Stuart Harrad.

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) continue to be the subject of concern amongst the public, as well as the scientific and policy-making communities. These concerns are exemplified by the international efforts co-ordinated by the United Nations' Environment Programme and the +Economic Commiss...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Harrad, Stuart (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
Edition:1st ed. 2001.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Air pollution.
Ecotoxicology.
Physical chemistry.
Environment.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Budget and Source Inventories: Issues and Challenges
  • 2 Atmospheric Fate and Behaviour
  • 3 Transfer of POPs into Vegetation: Implications and Mechanisms
  • 4 Transport and Fate in Food Animals
  • 5 Human Exposure and Fate
  • 6 Assessing Bioaccumulation Factors of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Aquatic Food-Chains
  • 7 Temporal Trends in Environmental Contamination
  • 8 Long-Range Transport: Implications for Polar Regions
  • 9 An Eastern European Perspective.

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