Identifying chemicals that are planetary boundary threats

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 11057-11063

  MacLeod, Matthew ^a   Breitholtz, Magnus ^a   Cousins, Ian T ^a   De Wit, Cynthia A ^a   Persson, Linn M ^b   Rudén, Christina ^a   McLachlan, Michael S ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CHEMICAL AGENT; CHEMICAL POLLUTION; CHEMICAL PROFILES; DISRUPTIVE EFFECTS; EARTH SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITIZATION;

INDICATORS (CHEMICAL);

CHEMICAL AGENT; POLLUTANT;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; PRIORITIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY LAYER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; POLLUTION; SPACE; UNCERTAINTY; ANALYSIS; HUMAN; POLLUTANT;

EARTH (PLANET); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS;

EID: 84907921229     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es501893m     Document Type: Article

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