Persistent Organic Pollutants

✍ Scribed by Keith Bull (auth.), H. Fiedler (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 432
• Series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry 3O
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants: The 1998 Agreement for the UNECE Region....Pages 1-11
The Development of a Global Treaty on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)....Pages 13-30
Criteria for Additional POPs....Pages 31-45
Chlorinated Pesticides: Aldrin, DDT, Endrin, Dieldrin, Mirex....Pages 47-90
Hexachlorobenzene....Pages 91-122
Dioxins and Furans (PCDD/PCDF)....Pages 123-201
Releases of Polychlorinated Dibenzo- p -Dioxins and Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans to Land and Water and with Products....Pages 203-222
Toxicology and Risk Assessment of POPs....Pages 223-235
Multimedia Models of Global Transport and Fate of Persistent Organic Pollutants....Pages 237-269
Background Contamination of Humans with Dioxins, Dioxin-Like PCBs and Other POPs....Pages 271-295
POPs in Southern Africa....Pages 297-320
Organochlorines in Nigeria and Africa....Pages 321-354
Sources, Fates and Effects of Persistent Organic Pollutants in China, with Emphasis on the Pearl River Delta....Pages 355-369
DDT in Mexico....Pages 371-388
Dioxin and Furan Reduction Technologies for Combustion and Industrial Thermal Process Facilities....Pages 389-423
Alternative Technologies for Destruction of PCB and Other POPs....Pages 425-438

✦ Subjects

Environmental Management; Terrestrial Pollution; Environmental Health; Pharmacology/Toxicology