Persistent Organic Pollutants

1. Front Matter

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2. Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants: The 1998 Agreement for the UNECE Region

   • Keith Bull

   Pages 1-11

3. The Development of a Global Treaty on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

   • John Buccini

   Pages 13-30

4. Criteria for Additional POPs

   • Bo A. Wahlström

   Pages 31-45

5. Chlorinated Pesticides: Aldrin, DDT, Endrin, Dieldrin, Mirex

   • Vladimir Zitko

   Pages 47-90

6. Hexachlorobenzene

   • Vladimir Zitko

   Pages 91-122

7. Dioxins and Furans (PCDD/PCDF)

   • Heidelore Fiedler

   Pages 123-201

8. Releases of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-Dioxins and Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans to Land and Water and with Products

   • Patrick H. Dyke

   Pages 203-222

9. Toxicology and Risk Assessment of POPs

   • S. Safe

   Pages 223-235

10. Multimedia Models of Global Transport and Fate of Persistent Organic Pollutants

    • Martin Scheringer, Frank Wania

    Pages 237-269

11. Background Contamination of Humans with Dioxins, Dioxin-Like PCBs and Other POPs

    • Olaf Päpke, Peter Fürst

    Pages 271-295

12. POPs in Southern Africa

    • H. Bouwman

    Pages 297-320

13. Organochlorines in Nigeria and Africa

    • Oladele Osibanjo

    Pages 321-354

14. Sources, Fates and Effects of Persistent Organic Pollutants in China, with Emphasis on the Pearl River Delta

    • M. H. Wong, B. H. T. Poon

    Pages 355-369

15. DDT in Mexico

    • Fernando Díaz-Barriga, Víctor Borja-Aburto, Stefan Waliszewski, Leticia Yáñez

    Pages 371-388

16. Dioxin and Furan Reduction Technologies for Combustion and Industrial Thermal Process Facilities

    • Hans-Ulrich Hartenstein

    Pages 389-423

17. Alternative Technologies for Destruction of PCB and Other POPs

    • Ian D. Rae

    Pages 425-438

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.

• Air pollution
• DDT
• Dioxin
• Furan
• combustion
• development
• environment
• environmental concentrations
• international context
• levels in humans
• occurence
• pesticide
• pollution
• toxicology
• transport
• terrestrial pollution

From the reviews:

"This book makes the reader familiar with the goals of the international conventions and addresses inventories, levels in humans and the environment as well as technologies to destroy them. The book’s attempt to cover this issue from many different countries at different stages of development and with differing policies regarding environmental issues makes it important reading for policymakers and manufacturers. … the technical articles will be useful to scientists. Recommended for … university and special libraries." (E-Streams, Vol. 6 (10), October, 2003)

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