PMID- 37731838
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20230922
IS  - 2666-4984 (Electronic)
IS  - 2096-9643 (Print)
IS  - 2666-4984 (Linking)
VI  - 17
DP  - 2024 Jan
TI  - The role of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) in reducing 
      pollution of the Arctic and around the globe.
PG  - 100302
LID - 10.1016/j.ese.2023.100302 [doi]
LID - 100302
AB  - This article presents the initiation and implementation of a systematic 
      scientific and political cooperation in the Arctic related to environmental 
      pollution and climate change, with a special focus on the role of the Arctic 
      Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP). The AMAP initiative has coordinated 
      monitoring and assessments of environmental pollution across countries and 
      parameters for the entire Arctic region. Starting from a first scientific 
      assessment in 1998, AMAP's work has been fundamental in recognizing, 
      understanding and addressing environmental and human health issues in the Arctic, 
      including those of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), mercury, radioactivity, 
      oil, acidification and climate change. These scientific results have contributed 
      at local and international levels to define and take measures towards reducing 
      the pollution not only in the Arctic, but of the whole globe, especially the 
      contaminant exposure of indigenous and local communities with a traditional 
      lifestyle. The results related to climate change have documented the rapid 
      changes in the Arctic and the strong feedback between the Arctic and the rest of 
      the world. The lessons learned from the work in the Arctic can be beneficial for 
      other regions where contaminants may accumulate and affect local and indigenous 
      peoples living in a traditional way, e.g. in the Himalayas. Global cooperation is 
      indispensable in reducing the long-range transported pollution in the Arctic.
CI  - (c) 2023 The Authors.
FAU - Reiersen, Lars-Otto
AU  - Reiersen LO
AD  - Arctic Knowledge Ltd, Former Executive Secretary, Arctic Monitoring and 
      Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway.
FAU - Vorkamp, Katrin
AU  - Vorkamp K
AD  - Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark.
FAU - Kallenborn, Roland
AU  - Kallenborn R
AD  - International Joint Research Center for Arctic Environment and Ecosystem 
      (IJRC-AEE), Polar Academy (PA), Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, PR China.
AD  - Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of 
      Life Sciences (NMBU), As, Norway.
AD  - University of the Arctic (UArctic), Rovaniemi, Finland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230726
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Environ Sci Ecotechnol
JT  - Environmental science and ecotechnology
JID - 9918453988906676
PMC - PMC10507581
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Climate change
OT  - Heavy metals
OT  - Human health
OT  - Indigenous peoples
OT  - Persistent organic pollutants
OT  - Radioactivity
COIS- The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or 
      personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in 
      this paper.
EDAT- 2023/09/21 06:42
MHDA- 2023/09/21 06:43
PMCR- 2023/07/26
CRDT- 2023/09/21 04:05
PHST- 2022/11/24 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/07/20 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2023/07/20 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/09/21 06:43 [medline]
PHST- 2023/09/21 06:42 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/09/21 04:05 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/07/26 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S2666-4984(23)00067-4 [pii]
AID - 100302 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.ese.2023.100302 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Environ Sci Ecotechnol. 2023 Jul 26;17:100302. doi: 10.1016/j.ese.2023.100302. 
      eCollection 2024 Jan.