POPs, the environment, and public health

Northern Lights against POPs: Combatting Toxic Threats in the Arctic

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 3-21

  Dewailly, Eric ^a,b,c   Furgal, Christopher ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health and Impact Assessment   (Canada)

^c BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

^d LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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