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The changing Arctic environment : the Arctic Messenger / David P. Stone (former chair of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)).

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"This accessible and engagingly written book describes how national and international scientific monitoring programmes brought to light our present understanding of Arctic environmental change, and how these research results were successfully used to achieve international legal actions to lesse...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Stone, David P. (Oceanographic scientist) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Arctic regions > Environmental conditions.
Environmental monitoring > Arctic regions.
Climatic changes > Arctic regions.
Pollution > Arctic regions.
Environmental impact analysis > Arctic regions.
Climatic changes.
Ecology.
Environmental impact analysis.
Environmental monitoring.
Pollution.
Arctic Regions.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Personal beginnings
  • Part I. The Changing Arctic
  • 2. The Arctic Messenger
  • Part II. Working Together
  • 3. The Arctic Messenger gains a voice : the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
  • Part III. What Is the Present State of Knowledge?
  • 4. Radioactivity
  • 5. Heroic efforts
  • 6. Acidification and Arctic haze
  • 7. Stratospheric ozone depletion
  • 8. Persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals (including mercury)
  • 9. Conducting marine science in the Arctic
  • 10. Climate change in the Arctic
  • Part IV. What Does This All Mean?
  • 11. Thoughts on education, the training of Arctic scientists and Arctic research
  • 12. The long and short of it : has the Arctic message been noticed?
  • 13. Epilogue: keeping the Rovaniemi flame alive.

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