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Are the residents of former Yugoslavia still exposed to elevated PCB levels due to the Balkan wars? Part 2: Passive air sampling network.

KLÁNOVÁ, Jana, Jiří KOHOUTEK, Pavel ČUPR and Ivan HOLOUBEK

Basic information

Original name

Are the residents of former Yugoslavia still exposed to elevated PCB levels due to the Balkan wars? Part 2: Passive air sampling network.

Name in Czech

Jsou obyvatelé bývalé Jugoslávie stále vystaveni zvýšeným hladinám PCBs jako důsledek Balkánských válek? Část 2: Síť pasivního vzorkování.

Authors

KLÁNOVÁ, Jana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Jiří KOHOUTEK (203 Czech Republic), Pavel ČUPR (203 Czech Republic) and Ivan HOLOUBEK (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Environment International, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Elsevier, 2007, 0160-4120

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10511 Environmental sciences

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.797

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/07:00023687

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000248273700002

Keywords in English

Persistent organic pollutants; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Atmosphere; Soil; High volume sampling; Passive air sampling; Balkan war; Yugoslavia

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 16/7/2008 15:13, Mgr. Petr Bureš

Abstract

V originále

Many Eastern European countries suffer the lack of data on concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in the environmental matrices. This absence of information is preventing the local authorities from taking the adequate actions to protect the people and environment. This is even more alarming in the countries recently affected by the wars where the chemicals released to the environment during the military operations can cause a significant ecological damage and health effects on the population. A potential of passive air sampling technique as a tool capable of providing seasonally and spatially resolved information about the local sources and levels of contamination was explored in this study as a first step to the establishment of a cost-effective long-term monitoring in this area. The passive air samplers proved to be a powerful technique capable of detecting the concentrations ranging over four orders of magnitude providing the information very comparable with the conventional techniques.

In Czech

Many Eastern European countries suffer the lack of data on concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in the environmental matrices. This absence of information is preventing the local authorities from taking the adequate actions to protect the people and environment. This is even more alarming in the countries recently affected by the wars where the chemicals released to the environment during the military operations can cause a significant ecological damage and health effects on the population. A potential of passive air sampling technique as a tool capable of providing seasonally and spatially resolved information about the local sources and levels of contamination was explored in this study as a first step to the establishment of a cost-effective long-term monitoring in this area. The passive air samplers proved to be a powerful technique capable of detecting the concentrations ranging over four orders of magnitude providing the information very comparable with the conventional techniques.

Links

MSM0021622412, plan (intention)
Name: Interakce mezi chemickými látkami, prostředím a biologickými systémy a jejich důsledky na globální, regionální a lokální úrovni (INCHEMBIOL) (Acronym: INCHEMBIOL)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Interactions among the chemicals, environment and biological systems and their consequences on the global, regional and local scales (INCHEMBIOL)