Implications and consequences of anthropogenic pollution in Polar environments

1. Background

2. Research and monitoring of atmospheric persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the Polar atmosphere

3. Atmospheric pollution research Greenland

4. Photochemistry of organic pollutants in/on snow and ice

5. Aeolian and ice transport of matter (including pollutants) in the Arctic

6. Schools taking part in a research project investigating dioxins in fish

7. Arctic monitoring and assessment programme (AMAP)-IPY meeting in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada (June 2009), and AMAP human health assessment 2009

8. The role of estrogens and estrogenic metabolites and male reproductive health disorders

9. Indigenous people of the North and the globalized world

10. Human security in the Arctic: The IPY GAPS Project

11. IPY BearHealth: polar bear (Ursus maritimus) circumpolar health assessment in relation to persistent pollutants and climate change

12. A circumarctic review of contaminents in ringed seals

13. Concluding remarks

Index.