Table of Contents
Preface
M. Munawar & M. Luotola
Salutation
L. Tarasti
Opening Address
K. Bärlund
Chemicals control in the Nordic countries: Approaches to risk reduction
B. Bucht, I.G. England, A. Lundgren, E. Nikunen & H. Tyle
Modelled and observed fate of selected organochlorines in the Nordic environment
J. Paasivirta, S. Sinkkonen, T. Rantio, D. Calamari, A. Di Guardo, M. Matthies & S. Trapp
Cadmium and mercury in north European forest ecosystems
M. Lodenius
Management of environmentally hazardous chemicals in Finland
L. Ylä-Mononen
Use and emission scenarios for methyl chloroform and carbon tetrachloride in Finland
A.B. Mukherjee
Ecological situation in the Leningrad Region: Emission, transboundary air pollution, decline of the conifer forest (results of a three-year assessment and monitoring survey of the effects of the effects of air pollution on forests)
N.I. Goltsova, T.V. Vasina & B.G. Popovichev
Pollution-related environmental gradients around the “Severonikel” smelter complex at the Kola Peninsula, Northwestern Russia
M.V. Kozlov & E. Haykioja
Effects of environmental pollutants on the cold-hardiness of Arctic and boreal ectothermic animals
K.E. Zachariassen & R. Lundheim
Mechanisms of thermal acclimation in relation to ecotoxicology
K.Y.H. Lagerspetz
The role of natural organic material on the fate and toxicity of xenobiotics in aquatic environment
J. Kukkonen
Degradation of the halogenated organic fraction of biologically treated bleached kraft pulp mill effluents in Finnish lake water mesocosms
E.K. Saski, K. Salonen, A. Vähätalo & M. Salkinoja-Salonen
Polychlorinated diphenyl ethers and chlorophenolic compounds in Salmon (Salmo salar) from the Arctic Teno River compared to the Baltic Sea
P.J. Vuorinen, J. Koistinen, J. Paasivirta, M. Vuorinen & J. Hoikka
Metals in cod (Gadus morhua morhua L.) from the Barents Sea
W.M. Savinov
Biomobility of organic halogen compounds from contaminated soil – earthworms as a tool
M. Laine, J. Jokela & M. Salkinoja-Salonen
Influence of soil and climatic factors on the kinetics of transformation of herbicides in soil
L. Torstensson & J. Stenstrõm
Variation of cyanobacterial hepatotoxins in Finland
K. Sivonen, M. Namikoshi, R. Luukkainen, M. Färdig, L. Rouhiainen, W.R. Evans, W.W. Carmicheal, K.L. Rineheart & S.I. Niemelä
Human impacts on the Hudson Bay region: Present and future environmental concerns
P.G. Sly
Workshop sessions