How many persistent organic pollutants should we expect?

Atmospheric Pollution Research

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 383-391

  Scheringer, Martin ^a   Strempel, Sebastian ^a   Hukari, Sirja ^a   Ng, Carla A ^a   Blepp, Markus ^b   Hungerbuhler, Konrad ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Öko Institut   (Germany)

Author keywords

Long range transport potential; PBT assessment; Persistent organic pollutants; Stockholm Convention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879219695     PISSN: 13091042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5094/APR.2012.044     Document Type: Article

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