Arctic Air Pollution

Overall hangs the major question; can man-made pollution affect the delicate energy balance of the Arctic, and precipitate major climatic change worldwide?

B. Stonehouse (Author)

9780521093392, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 January 2009

348 pages
24.4 x 17 x 1.8 cm, 0.56 kg

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?

Part I. Composition, source areas and transport pathways
Part II. Local, regional, global, ecological and climatic implications
Part III. Health and ecological issues
Part IV. International co-operation and state responsibility
Part V. Conclusions
Index.

Subject Areas: Pollution & threats to the environment [RNP]