Arctic Health Risks: Impacts on health in the Arctic and Europe owing to climate-induced changes in contaminant cycling

Project Information

ARCRISK

Grant agreement ID: 226534

Project closed

Start date 1 June 2009

End date 31 January 2014

Funded under

• Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change)

Total cost € 4 731 432,88

EU contribution € 3 499 052,20

Coordinated by

Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme Secretariat
Norway

Objective

Long-range transport of contaminants to the Arctic, the resulting exposures observed in Arctic human populations, and impacts of such exposures on human health have been the subject of considerable work in recent years, providing a baseline against which to compare future developments. Global climate change has the potential to remobilize environmental contaminants and alter contaminant transport pathways, fate, and routes of exposure in human populations. The Arctic is particularly sensitive to climate change and already exhibits clear impacts. Research into contaminant exposure and its effects on human health in the Arctic, in comparison with other exposed populations in Europe, presents an opportunity to gain insight into changes that may later impact other areas. The influence of climate change on contaminant spreading and transfer and the resultant risk to human populations in the Arctic and other areas of Europe will be studied by: 1) Research on the ways in which climate change will affect the long-range transport and fate of selected groups of contaminants, and possible implications for the re-distribution of contaminants (geographically and between relevant environmental media). This will involve modelling, utilizing the information base that exists on the distribution of such contaminants in the Arctic and other areas of Europe; 2) Research on the impacts that changing pathways and climatic conditions will have on contaminant uptake and transfer within food webs, leading to foods consumed by humans. This will involve experimental work, process studies and targeted analytical studies, the latter focussed on supporting the modelling work and process studies related to human exposure to contaminants; 3) Research focussing on human health, aimed at determining how climate-mediated changes in the environmental fate of selected groups of contaminants will result in changes in exposure of human populations, in the Arctic and in selected areas of Europe.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › atmospheric sciences › climatology › climatic changes

Keywords

• Arctic populations
• climate change
• contaminant transfer and bioavailability
• food webs
• health risk
• human exposure
• persistent pollutants

Programme(s)

• FP7-ENVIRONMENT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change)

Topic(s)

• ENV.2008.1.2.1.2. - Comparison of health risks in populations in the Arctic and selected areas in Europe due to the spreading of contaminants resulting from climate change

Call for proposal

FP7-ENV-2008-1
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Funding Scheme

CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project

Coordinator

Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme Secretariat

• EU contribution: € 345 319,00
• Address: HJALMAR JOHANSENS GATE 14 ; 9296 Tromso ; Norway
• Region: Norge › Nord-Norge › Troms og Finnmark
• Activity type: Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Janet Pawlak (Mrs.)
• Total cost: No data

Participants (20)

STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET

Sweden

• EU contribution: € 198 100,00
• Address: UNIVERSITETSVAGEN 10 ; 10691 Stockholm
• Region: Östra Sverige › Stockholm › Stockholms län
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Ian Cousins (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

AARHUS UNIVERSITET

Denmark

• EU contribution: € 157 499,00
• Address: NORDRE RINGGADE 1 ; 8000 Aarhus C
• Region: Danmark › Midtjylland › Østjylland
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Kaj Mantzius Hansen (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

ALFRED-WEGENER-INSTITUT HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR POLAR- UND MEERESFORSCHUNG

Germany

• EU contribution: € 157 426,00
• Address: AM HANDELSHAFEN 12 ; 27570 Bremerhaven
• Region: Bremen › Bremen › Bremerhaven, Kreisfreie Stadt
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Catherine Audebert (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: € 286 276,00
• Address: BAILRIGG ; LA1 4YW Lancaster
• Region: North West (England) › Lancashire › Lancaster and Wyre
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Sarah Taylor (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITETSSENTERET PA SVALBARD AS

Norway

• EU contribution: € 177 000,00
• Address: Sjoskrenten 1 ; 9171 Longyearbyen
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Gunnar Sand (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS

Spain

• EU contribution: € 119 135,00
• Address: CALLE SERRANO 117 ; 28006 Madrid
• Region: Comunidad de Madrid › Comunidad de Madrid › Madrid
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Carlos Manuel Abad Ruiz (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

IVL SVENSKA MILJOEINSTITUTET AB

Sweden

• EU contribution: € 302 555,00
• Address: PO BOX 21060 ; 100 31 Stockholm
• Region: Östra Sverige › Stockholm › Stockholms län
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Mats Ridner (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

OULUN YLIOPISTO

Finland

• EU contribution: € 389 287,20
• Address: PENTTI KAITERAN KATU 1 ; 90014 Oulu
• Region: Manner-Suomi › Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi › Pohjois-Pohjanmaa
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Arto Eljander (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

STIFTELSEN NILU

Norway

• EU contribution: € 320 700,00
• Address: INSTITUTTVEIEN 18 ; 2027 Kjeller
• Region: Norge › Oslo og Viken › Viken
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Paal Berg (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN

Slovenia

• EU contribution: € 166 410,00
• Address: Jamova 39 ; 1000 Ljubljana
• Region: Slovenija › Zahodna Slovenija › Osrednjeslovenska
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Jadran Lenarcic (Prof.)
• Total cost: No data

O.A.SYS - OCEAN ATMOSPHERE SYSTEMS GMBH

Germany

• EU contribution: € 157 500,00
• Address: TEWESSTEG 4 ; 20249 Hamburg
• Region: Hamburg › Hamburg › Hamburg
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Michael Karcher (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV

Germany

• EU contribution: € 157 500,00
• Address: HOFGARTENSTRASSE 8 ; 80539 Munchen
• Region: Bayern › Oberbayern › München, Kreisfreie Stadt
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Marietta Winkler (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH

Switzerland

• EU contribution: € 155 460,00
• Address: Raemistrasse 101 ; 8092 Zuerich
• Region: Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera › Zürich › Zürich
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Konrad Hungerbühler (Prof.)
• Total cost: No data

Masarykova univerzita

Czechia

• EU contribution: € 156 300,00
• Address: Zerotinovo namesti 9 ; 601 77 Brno
• Region: Česko › Jihovýchod › Jihomoravský kraj
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Jana Klánová (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

FOLKEHELSEINSTITUTTET

Norway

• EU contribution: € 112 485,00
• Address: LOVISENBERGGATA 8 ; 0456 Oslo
• Region: Norge › Oslo og Viken › Oslo
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Helle Katrine Knutsen (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

Northwest Public Health Research Center (Russian Ministry of Health and Sciences)

Russia

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Sovjetskaya 4 ; 191031 St.Petersburg,
• Activity type: Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Valery Chashchin (Prof.)
• Total cost: No data

ENVIRONMENT CANADA

Canada

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: BOULEVARD SAINT-JOSEPH, PLACE VINCENT-MASSEY 351, 8ème étage ; K1A 0H3 Gatineau
• Activity type: Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Derek Muir (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA

Canada

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: East White Hills Road 80 ; A1C5X8 St John's NF
• Activity type: Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Gary A. Stern (Prof.)
• Total cost: No data

HEALTH CANADA

Canada

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: RM 5-074, BMO BLDG, LAURIER AVE. WEST 269, AL4905B ; K2A 1Z7 Ottawa
• Activity type: Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Jay Van Oostdam (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET

Norway

• EU contribution: € 140 100,00
• Address: HANSINE HANSENS VEG 14 ; 9019 Tromso
• Region: Norge › Nord-Norge › Troms og Finnmark
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Tore Guneriussen (Prof.)
• Total cost: No data