Are the residents of former Yugoslavia still exposed to elevated PCB levels due to the Balkan wars?. Part 1: air sampling in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Environment International

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 719-726

  Klánová, Jana ^a   Kohoutek, Jiří ^a   Kostrhounová, Romana ^a   Holoubek, Ivan ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Balkan war; High volume sampling; Persistent organic pollutants; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Soil; Yugoslavia

Indexed keywords

NATURAL RESOURCES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SAMPLING; SOIL TESTING;

BALKAN WAR; HIGH VOLUME SAMPLING; MILITARY TARGETS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL QUALITY; WAR;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CONTAMINATION; CROATIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; WAR; YUGOSLAVIA;

ASIA; BALKAN; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CROATIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SERBIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TURKMENISTAN; WEST ASIA; YUGOSLAVIA (PRE-1992);

EID: 34250216473     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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