Title
Northern Lights against POPs: Combatting Toxic Threats in the Arctic
Role
Co-Editors and contributing authors: David Downie and Terry Fenge
Files
Document Type
Book
Description/Summary
In addition to co-editing, David Downie is a contributing author, “Global POPs Policy: The 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants" and (with Terry Fenge), "“Introduction".
Book description:
Representatives of 111 nations gathered in Stockholm in May 2001 to sign a legally binding convention to eliminate or reduce emissions of pesticides, insecticides, and other industrial combustion by-products. Long-range transport by air and water carries many of these pollutants to the circumpolar north, where they threaten the health and cultural survival of Inuit and other northern Indigenous peoples. Northern Lights against POPs tells the many-faceted scientific, policy, legal, and advocacy story that led to the Stockholm convention. Unique in its perspective, scope, and breadth, it reveals the key links among environmental and health science, international politics, advocacy, law, and global negotiations. Never before have public health concerns articulated by northern Indigenous peoples in Canada and throughout the circumpolar Arctic had such a direct impact on global policy-making. Authors show how research on POPs (persistent organic pollutants) in the Arctic from the mid-1980s influenced international negotiations and analyze the potential for the convention to be effective. Contributors include elected representatives, researchers, civil servants, Indigenous people who participated in the negotiations, and scientists who provided the compelling Arctic data that prompted the United Nations Environment Programme to sponsor negotiations.
ISBN
9780773524828
Publication Date
2003
Publication Information
Book citation:
David Downie and Terry Fenge, eds., Northern Lights against POPs: Combatting Toxic Threats in the Arctic. Montreal, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.
Contribution citations:
David Downie (2003). “Global POPs Policy: The 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.” In David Downie and Terry Fenge, eds., Northern Lights against POPs: Combating Toxic Threats in the Arctic. Montreal, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press.
David Downie and Terry Fenge (2003). “Introduction.” In David Downie and Terry Fenge, eds. Northern Lights against POPs: Combating Toxic Threats in the Arctic. Montreal, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press.
Recommended Citation
Downie, David Leonard and Fenge, Terry, "Northern Lights against POPs: Combatting Toxic Threats in the Arctic" (2003). Politics Faculty Book and Media Gallery. 11.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/politics-books/11
Comments
Copyright 2003 McGill-Queen's University Press