| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 347 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (2001)
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Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (2001) |
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Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. |
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Convention de Stockholm sur les polluants organiques persistants (2001) |
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Persistent pollutants -- Health aspects -- Arctic regions.
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Persistent pollutants. |
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Arctic Regions. |
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Organic compounds -- Health aspects -- Arctic regions.
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Organic compounds. |
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Persistent pollutants -- Environmental aspects -- Arctic regions.
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Persistent pollutants -- Environmental aspects. |
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Organic compounds -- Environmental aspects -- Arctic regions.
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Organic compounds -- Environmental aspects. |
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Arctic regions -- Environmental conditions.
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Environmental conditions. |
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Environmental Pollutants -- adverse effects. |
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Environmental Monitoring. |
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Organic Chemicals -- adverse effects. |
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Pesticides -- adverse effects. |
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Arctic Regions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Essays.
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Essays.
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| Added Author |
Fenge, T.
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Downie, David Leonard.
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Inuit Circumpolar Conference.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Northern lights against POPs. Montreal ; Ithaca : Published for the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (Canada) by McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2003 0773524487 (DLC) 2004381588 (OCoLC)51242871 |
| ISBN |
9780773570672 (electronic book) |
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0773570675 (electronic book) |
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0773524827 |
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9780773524828 |
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0773524487 |
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9780773524484 |
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