Procedures and Methods for Integrated Global Background Monitoring of Environmental Pollution

The aim of the present paper is to formulate the basic principles of integrated background monitoring, and to describe procedures and methods of integrated background monitoring with respect to observation of background pollution of environmental components. Materials included in the paper are based on the practical experience of integrated monitoring gained both while implementing the Pilot Project in America and in the course of multilateral cooperation in Europe (and Asia). It is important that in both cases scientists and experts came into contact and shared opinions at numerous meetings and discussions and developed a common basis of approaches to, and activities on, many essential aspects of integrated background monitoring.