Overview
- Emphasizes preventive measures to address POPs at their source
- Illustrates regulatory aspects
- Contains monitoring activities and current situation
- Remediation Methods
- Shows health effects
- Shows advances in the measurement of POPs
Part of the book series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security (NAPSC)
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Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds of natural or anthropogenic origin that resist photolytic, chemical and biological degradation. They are characterized by low water solubility and high lipid solubility, resulting in bioaccumulation in fatty tissues of living organisms. These properties of unusual high persistence and semi-volatility, coupled with other characteristics, have resulted in the presence of POPs all over the world, even in regions where they have never been used. With the evidence of long-range transport of these substances to regions, the international community has now, at several occasions called for urgent global actions to reduce and eliminate releases of these chemicals. Many countries have already banned or severely restricted the production and use of the twelve POPs in recent decades. Yet they remain a serious problem around the world. Because these chemicals have the ability to travel long distances from their original sources, relying on national-level action alone is ultimately a futile effort.
This book employs a science-based approach to identify and take action against POPs, and additionally, provides access to technical information on POPs. The book will be an overview of the existing POP monitoring activities and programs.
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Table of contents (32 papers)
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Front Matter
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Regulatory Aspects
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Monitoring Activities and Current Situation
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Sources, Release Pathways, Fate, and Transport
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Fate of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Environment
Editors: Ebru Mehmetli, Bogdana Koumanova
Series Title: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6642-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6640-5Published: 28 November 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6641-2Published: 21 November 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6642-9Published: 14 December 2007
Series ISSN: 1874-6519
Series E-ISSN: 1874-6543
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 473
Topics: Pollution, general, Environmental Science and Engineering, Ecotoxicology