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

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

Title remainder

combatting toxic threats in the Arctic

Statement of responsibility

edited by David Leonard Downie, Terry Fenge

Instantiates

• Northern lights against POPs : combatting toxic threats in the Arctic

Publication

• Montreal, Published for the Inuit Circumpolar Conference Canada by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Carrier category

online resource

Carrier category code

• cr

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Color

multicolored

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

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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80221278

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unknown

Extent

1 online resource (xxv, 347 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates)

Form of item

online

Isbn

9780773570672

Media category

computer

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• c

Other physical details

illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits

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22573/ctt6xxt5

Record ID

.b123398940

Specific material designation

remote

System control number

(OCoLC)80221278