David Santillo

TL;DR: This document was prepared by a working group of Regional Centres of the Stockholm and Basel Conventions to be a background document for discussion in the 2017 Conference of the Parties of the Basel Convention on hazardous wastes and the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants.

TL;DR: The concept of sustainable development has suffered from a proliferation of definitions, such that it has increasingly come to mean many things to many different people as discussed by the authors. This has limited its credibility, called into question its practical application and the significance of associated achievements and, overall, limited the progress in environmental and social developments which it was designed to underpin.

TL;DR: This article provides a comprehensive overview of the types of PCDD/F contaminated sites that exist as a result of historical activities and details the various processes whereby these sites became contaminated and attempts to evaluate their contemporary relevance as sources of PC DD/Fs and other POPs.

TL;DR: A review of the current state of development of seabed mining activities in areas both within and beyond national jurisdictions is presented in this article, where the uncertainties and gaps in scientific knowledge and understanding which render baseline and impact assessments particularly difficult for the deep sea.