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Subject(s)

• Persistent pollutants—Environmental aspects [Browse]
• Organic compounds—Environmental aspects—Congresses [Browse]

Speaker

• Lü, Yonglong [Browse]
• Giesy, John [Browse]
• Holliday, Laura [Browse]

Summary note

This report summarizes a workshop-Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants held June 7-10, 2004, in Beijing, China. The presentations and discussions summarized here describe the types of scientific information necessary to make informed decisions to eliminate the production and use of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) banned under the Stockholm Convention, sources of information; scientifically informed strategies for eliminating POPs, elements of good scientific advice, such as transparency, peer review, and disclosure of conflicts of interest; and information dealing with POPs that decision makers need from the scientific community, including next steps to make such science available and ensure its use on a continuing basis.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 27, 2016).

ISBN

• 9780309180054
• 0309180058
• 9780309668859
• 0309668859

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