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Human activities both depend upon and have consequences on the environment. Environmental risk assessment (ERA) is a process of estimating the probability and consequences of human activities' and other stressors' adverse effects on the environment. Bayesian Networks (BNs) can synthesize different types of knowledge and explicitly account for the p...
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A growing challenge for risk, vulnerability, and resilience assessment is the ability to understand, characterize, and model the complexities of our joint socio-ecological systems, often delineated with differing natural (e.g. watershed) and imposed (e.g. political) boundaries at the landscape scale. To effectively manage such systems in the increa...
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Lake Victoria, regionally important both as a source of food and income, is under pressure due to overfishing and severe pollution. Currently, the vast majority of east African aquaculture is open-pond based. The adoption of modern and sustainable aquaculture technologies and practices-in this case study recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS)-will...
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Em novembro de 2015, a barragem de rejeitos da Samarco em Mariana, MG, Brasil, rompeu, liberando 62 milhões de toneladas de rejeitos de minério de ferro que avançaram por 668 km do rio Doce e planície adjacente. Embora este tenha sido considerado o pior desastre ambiental do país, pouco se sabe sobre as consequências da liberação do fluxo de lama p...
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Complex urban air quality has long been assessed by a single (or major) contaminant, e.g., fine particulate matter (PM2.5 ), but scant attention has been given to multicontaminant air pollution, especially in countries with severe air pollution, e.g., China. We thus proposed an improved method for quantifying both single- and multicontaminant air p...
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Alternatives assessment is gaining traction as a systematic method to support the informed substitution of chemicals of concern. The 2nd International Symposium on Alternatives Assessment, on 1-2 November 2018, convened nearly 150 professionals from government agencies, industry, consultant firms, academia, and advocacy organizations to advance a g...
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Project proponent- and government-led environmental monitoring are required to identify, understand, and manage cumulative effects (CE), yet such monitoring initiatives are rarely mutually supportive. Notwithstanding the need for a more integrated and complementary approach to monitoring, monitoring efforts are often less effective than intended fo...
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Alternatives assessment has emerged as a science policy field that supports the evaluation and adoption of safer chemistries in manufacturing processes and consumer products. The recent surge in the development and practice of alternatives assessment has revealed notable methodological challenges. Spurred by this need, we convened an informal commu...
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To investigate whether vegetative endpoints are protective of reproductive endpoints in terrestrial plant risk assessments (RA) for authorisation of plant protection products (PPPs), we assessed differences in sensitivity to herbicides between these parameters. Published literature and unpublished proprietary data generated for the registration of ...
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Despite widespread acceptance of the utility of population modeling and advocacy of this approach for a more ecologically relevant perspective, it is not routinely incorporated in ecological risk assessments (ERA). A systematic framework for situation-specific model development is one of the major challenges to broadly adopting population models in...
