The changing Arctic environment : the Arctic Messenger.

Stone, David P.

The changing Arctic environment : the Arctic Messenger.

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

2015

xiv, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-349) and index.

Environmental monitoring

Environmental impact analysis

Climatic change

Pollution

Arctic regions

J02-012

English

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ISBN 9781107094413