UID:
edocfu_9960119613502883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 328 pages)
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illustrations, portraits
ISBN:
0-511-56549-6
Series Statement:
Studies in polar research
Content:
Arctic atmospheric pollution is now a major international issue. This volume presents the most authoritative review of this increasingly important subject for an audience of both scientists and administrators concerned with worldwide, as well as polar, pollution problems. Arctic Air Pollution is an edited collection of papers, first presented at a conference helo as the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge in 1985. Building on foundations established at earlier meetings, this volume examines the problem of Arctic air pollution in an integrated, multidisciplinary fashion, with contributions from leading authorities in chemistry, ecology, climatology and epidemiology. To chemists, physicists and climatologists, it presents scientific problems. Ecologists are concerned with environmental threats; medical researchers with potential threats to human health. International lawyers and administrators are concerned with the legal implications of pollutants transferred across continents. Overall hangs the major question; can man-made pollution affect the delicate energy balance of the Arctic, and precipitate major climatic change worldwide?
Note:
Papers presented at an International Symposium on Arctic Air Pollution held at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England, 9/2-5/85 and sponsored by the State of Alaska through the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
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pt. 1. Composition, source areas and transport pathways -- pt. 2. Local, regiona, global, ecological and climatic implications -- pt. 3. Health and ecological issues -- pt. 4. International cooperation and state responsibility.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-09339-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-33000-9
Language:
English
