Tickner, Joel Simon, Rachel Jacobs, Molly Rudisill, Cathy Tanir, Jennifer Heine, Lauren Spencer, Pamela Fantke, Peter Malloy, Tim Edwards, Sally
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Integrated environmental assessment and management
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...
Wong, Lindsay Noble, Bram Hanna, Kevin
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Integrated environmental assessment and management
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...
Tickner, Joel Jacobs, Molly Malloy, Tim Buck, Topher Stone, Alex Blake, Ann Edwards, Sally
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Integrated environmental assessment and management
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...
Christl, Heino Hoen, Thierry Zumkier, Ulrich
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Integrated environmental assessment and management
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 Published literature and unpublished proprietary data generated for the registration of ...
Awkerman, Jill Raimondo, Sandy Schmolke, Amelie Galic, Nika Rueda-Cediel, Pamela Kapo, Katherine Accolla, Chiara Vaugeois, Maxime Forbes, Valery
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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...
Wigger, Henning Kawecki, Delphine Nowack, Bernd Adam, Véronique
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Integrated environmental assessment and management
The calculation of a species sensitivity distribution (SSD) is a commonly accepted approach to derive the predicted no-effect concentration (PNEC) of a substance in the context of environmental risk assessment. The SSD approach usually is data demanding and incorporates a large number of ecotoxicological values from different experimental studies. ...
van Dam, Rick A Hogan, Alicia C Harford, Andrew J Humphrey, Chris L
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Integrated environmental assessment and management
Existing prescriptive guidance on the derivation of local water quality benchmarks (WQBs; e.g., guideline values, criteria, standards) for protecting aquatic ecosystems is limited to only 3 to 4 specific approaches. These approaches do not represent the full suite available for deriving local WQBs for multiple types of water quality-related issues....
Nishioka, Tohru Iwasaki, Yuichi Ishikawa, Yuriko Yamane, Masayuki Morita, Osamu Honda, Hiroshi
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Strategies for deriving predicted environmental concentrations (PECs) using environmental exposure models have become increasingly important in the environmental risk assessment of chemical substances. However, many strategies are not fully developed owing to uncertainties in the derivation of PECs across spatially extensive areas. Here, we used 3-...
Li, Qi Cheng, Bo Liu, Shan Zhang, Yibo Zhou, Li Guo, Jiahua
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The occurrence of antibiotics in China's surface waters is an emerging concern. While the ecological risk assessment for a couple of antibiotics is available in some regions, no attempt has been made to assess their risks at a national scale. The present work therefore proposed a probabilistic based approach to characterize the ecological risks of ...
Rycroft, Taylor Wood, Matthew Zemba, Valerie Kennedy, Alan Weiss, Charles Jr Desmet, David Ali, Rahim Linkov, Igor
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While beneficial in many applications, questions remain as to whether advanced materials (AdMs) are more or less sustainable than the conventional materials that they may replace. Currently, there is no available tool to provide clarity to these questions. Traditional approaches for evaluating the sustainability of a chemical or material are usuall...
