List of works by Knut Breivik

Are reductions in industrial organic contaminants emissions in rich countries achieved partly by export of toxic wastes?

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Assessment of sorbent impregnated PUF disks (SIPs) for long-term sampling of legacy POPs

scientific article published on 09 November 2011

Atmospheric monitoring of organic pollutants in the Arctic under the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP): 1993-2006.

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Atmospheric polychlorinated biphenyls in Indian cities: levels, emission sources and toxicity equivalents

scientific article published on 15 August 2013

CoZMo-POP 2 – A fugacity-based dynamic multi-compartmental mass balance model of the fate of persistent organic pollutants

Combining plasma measurements and mechanistic modeling to explore the effect of POPs on type 2 diabetes mellitus in Norwegian women

scientific article published on 21 July 2015

Corrigendum to "Endosulfan, pentachlorobenzene and short-chain chlorinated paraffins in background soils from Western Europe" [Environ. Pollut. 196 (2015), 21-28]

scientific article published on 22 November 2016

Dynamic modelling of aquatic exposure and pelagic food chain transfer of cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes in the Inner Oslofjord

scientific article published on 24 November 2012

E-Waste Driven Pollution in Pakistan: The First Evidence of Environmental and Human Exposure to Flame Retardants (FRs) in Karachi City

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Elevated levels of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in fish from Lake Mjøsa, Norway

scientific article published on 31 October 2007

Elucidating the Behavior of Cyclic Volatile Methylsiloxanes in a Subarctic Freshwater Food Web: A Modeled and Measured Approach

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Emerging issue of e-waste in Pakistan: A review of status, research needs and data gaps

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Emission impossible? The challenge of quantifying sources and releases of POPs into the environment

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

Endosulfan, pentachlorobenzene and short-chain chlorinated paraffins in background soils from Western Europe.

scientific article published on 3 October 2014

Estimating Time-Varying PCB Exposures Using Person-Specific Predictions to Supplement Measured Values: A Comparison of Observed and Predicted Values in Two Cohorts of Norwegian Women

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

Evaluating a model of the historical behavior of two hexachlorocyclohexanes in the Baltic Sea environment

scientific article published in March 2002

Evaluating the environmental fate of pharmaceuticals using a level III model based on poly-parameter linear free energy relationships

scientific article published on 11 July 2005

Evaluating the environmental fate of short-chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs) in the Nordic environment using a dynamic multimedia model.

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Evidence for major emissions of PCBs in the west African region.

scientific article published on 12 January 2011

Global distribution and budget of PCBs and HCB in background surface soils: implications for sources and environmental processes

scientific article published in February 2003

Has the burden and distribution of PCBs and PBDEs changed in European background soils between 1998 and 2008? Implications for sources and processes.

scientific article published on 5 August 2011

High Concentrations of Organic Contaminants in Air from Ship Breaking Activities in Chittagong, Bangladesh.

scientific article published on 9 September 2015

Identifying the Research and Infrastructure Needs for the Global Assessment of Hazardous Chemicals Ten Years after Establishing the Stockholm Convention

Import, use, and emissions of PCBs in Switzerland from 1930 to 2100.

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Introduction to the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) and observed atmospheric composition change during 1972–2009

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Long-Term Temporal Trends of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Their Controlling Sources in China.

scientific article published on 27 January 2017

Low concentrations of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in air at Cape Verde.

scientific article published on 26 August 2017

MODELING THE FATE OF POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS IN THE INNER OSLOFJORD, NORWAY

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

Mass budgets, pathways, and equilibrium states of two hexachlorocyclohexanes in the Baltic Sea environment

scientific article published in March 2002

Model-based evaluation of the use of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons molecular diagnostic ratios as a source identification tool.

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Modeling the Time-Variant Dietary Exposure of PCBs in China over the Period 1930 to 2100

scientific article published on 20 June 2018

Occurrence and seasonality of cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes in Arctic air.

scientific article published on 11 December 2012

PBDEs in European Background Soils: Levels and Factors Controlling Their Distribution

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

Persistent organic pollutants in Norwegian men from 1979 to 2007: intraindividual changes, age-period-cohort effects, and model predictions

scientific article published on 05 September 2013

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) as sentinels for the elucidation of Arctic environmental change processes: a comprehensive review combined with ArcRisk project results.

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Possible emissions of POPs in plain and hilly areas of Nepal: Implications for source apportionment and health risk assessment

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Prioritizing chemicals and data requirements for screening-level exposure and risk assessment

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Relationships between organic matter, black carbon and persistent organic pollutants in European background soils: Implications for sources and environmental fate.

scientific article published on 14 July 2008

Screening for PFOS and PFOA in European air using passive samplers

scientific article published on 12 March 2010

Screening organic chemicals in commerce for emissions in the context of environmental and human exposure

scientific article published on 11 July 2012

Soil concentrations, occurrence, sources and estimation of air-soil exchange of polychlorinated biphenyls in Indian cities

scientific article published on 29 April 2016

Spatial patterns of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in mosses, herbivores and a carnivore from the Norwegian terrestrial biota

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Temporal trends of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in arctic air: 20 years of monitoring under the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP).

scientific article published on 10 February 2016

The global re-cycling of persistent organic pollutants is strongly retarded by soils

scientific article published on January 2003

The impacts of emission trends of POPs on human concentration dynamics: Lessons learned from a longitudinal study in Norway (1979-2007).

scientific article published on 20 February 2017

The mass flow and proposed management of bisphenol A in selected Norwegian waste streams.

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Towards a global historical emission inventory for selected PCB congeners — a mass balance approach2. Emissions

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

Towards a global historical emission inventory for selected PCB congeners--a mass balance approach. 1. Global production and consumption.

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Towards an understanding of the link between environmental emissions and human body burdens of PCBs using CoZMoMAN

scientific article published on 13 November 2009

Tracking the Global Distribution of Persistent Organic Pollutants Accounting for E-Waste Exports to Developing Regions.

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Tracking the global generation and exports of e-waste. Do existing estimates add up?

scientific article published on 9 July 2014

Trends in European background air reflect reductions in primary emissions of PCBs and PBDEs

scientific article published on September 2010

Understanding of Cyclic Volatile Methyl Siloxane Fate in a High Latitude Lake Is Constrained by Uncertainty in Organic Carbon-Water Partitioning

scientific article published on 20 December 2016

Use of alpha-, beta- and gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane in Europe, 1970-1996

scientific article published on 01 October 1999

Using Model-Based Screening to Help Discover Unknown Environmental Contaminants

scientific article published on 12 June 2014