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Title

Northern lights against POPs : combatting threats in the Arctic / edited by David Leonard Downie, Terry Fenge.

Publication

Montreal : Published for the Inuit Circumpolar Conference Canada by McGill-Queen's University Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Additional Authors

• Fenge, T.
• Downie, David Leonard.
• Inuit Circumpolar Conference.

Description

xxv, 347 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subjects

• Convention de Stockholm sur les polluants organiques persistants (2001)
• Persistent pollutants > Environmental aspects > Arctic regions
• Arctic regions > Environmental conditions
• Organic compounds > Environmental aspects > Arctic regions
• Composés organiques > Aspect de l'environnement > Arctique
• Composés organiques > Aspect sanitaire > Arctique
• Persistent pollutants > Health aspects > Arctic regions
• Polluants persistants > Aspect de l'environnement > Arctique
• Organic compounds > Health aspects > Arctic regions
• Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (2001)
• Polluants persistants > Aspect sanitaire > Arctique

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Foreword / David Anderson and Klaus Topfer -- Introduction / David Leonard Downie and Terry Fenge -- Some Participants in Negotiations of the 2001 Stockholm Convention -- 1. POPs, the Environment, and Public Health / Eric Dewailly and Christopher Furgal -- 2. Canadian Arctic Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Food Systems, and POPs / Harriet Kuhnlein, Laurie H. M. Chan, Grace Egeland and Olivier Receveur -- 3. Canadian Research and POPs: The Northern Contaminants Program / Russel Shearer and Siu-Ling Han -- 4. Circumpolar Perspectives on Persistent Organic Pollutants: The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme / Lars-Otto Reiersen, Simon Wilson and Vitaly Kimstach -- 5. 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 -- 6. Regional POPs Policy: The UNECE CLRTAP POPs Protocol / Henrik Selin --
• 7. Global POPs Policy: The 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants / David Leonard Downie -- 8. The Stockholm Convention in the Context of International Environmental Law / Nigel Bankes -- 9. POPs and Inuit: Influencing the Global Agenda / Terry Fenge -- 10. POPs in Alaska: Engaging the USA / Henry P. Huntington and Michelle Sparck -- 11. The Long and Winding Road to Stockholm: The View from the Chair / John Anthony Buccini -- 12. The Inuit Journey Towards a POPs-free World / Sheila Watt-Cloutier -- App. 1. Contributors -- App. 2. POPs Science and Policy: A Brief Northern Lights Timeline -- App. 3. Glossary of Terms and Concepts: POPs and International Negotiations -- App. 4. The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

ISBN

• 0773524827 (pbk.)
• 0773524487 (bnd.)

OCLC

• ocm51242871
• SCSB-4338186

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries