ecological risk assessment Books
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Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment
Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment establishes a framework for goals, methods, and data needs for different assessment applications and for integrating population-level risk assessment into risk management decisions. Highlighting key considerations needed to improve the ...
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Economics and Ecological Risk Assessment: Applications to Watershed Management
With contributions from a wide array of economists, ecologists, and government agency professionals, Economics and Ecological Risk Assessment: Applications to Watershed Management provides a multidisciplinary approach to environmental decision-making at a watershed level. It introduces the fields of ecological ...
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Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment
Most ecological risk assessments consider the risk to individual organisms or organism-level attributes. From a management perspective, however, risks to population-level attributes and processes are often more relevant. Despite many published calls for population risk assessment ...
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Extrapolation Practice for Ecotoxicological Effect Characterization of Chemicals
A wide-ranging compilation of techniques, Extrapolation Practice for Ecotoxicological Effect Characterization of Chemicals describes methods of extrapolation in the framework of ecological risk assessment. The book, informally known as EXPECT, identifies data needs and situations where these extrapolations can be ...
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Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment: Using the Relative Risk Model
Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment: Using the Relative Risk Model is a collaborative summary and guidebook of the development, methods, and application of the Relative Risk Model (RRM) to meet the need for regional assessments with multiple stressors from diverse sources and numerous ...
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Species Sensitivity Distributions in Ecotoxicology
In spite of the growing importance of Species Sensitivity Distribution models (SSDs) in ecological risk assessments, the conceptual basis, strengths, and weaknesses of using them have not been comprehensively reviewed. This book fills that need. Written by a panel of international experts, Species ...
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Ecological Risk Assessment, Second Edition
The definitive reference in its field, Ecological Risk Assessment, Second Edition details the latest advances in science and practice. In the fourteen years since the publication of the best-selling first edition, ecological risk assessment (ERA) has moved from the margins into the spotlight. It ...
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Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment: 3rd Vol.
Features the latest advances in determining the impact of chemicals on the environment. A comprehensive overview of the current status of ecological risk assessment and suggested advances for the discipline is the cornerstone of this publication. Twenty-two additional papers are presented in five categories, ...
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Wetland Landscape Characterization: GIS, Remote Sensing and Image Analysis
, and ecological risk assessments. Using numerous technical methods, Wetland Landscape Characterization ...
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Interconnections Between Human and Ecosystem Health
This book addresses comparisons between human-environmental health and the health of the natural world by authors from several disciplines such as molecular biology, toxicology, ecology, risk assessment and risk perception, economics, psychology and literature. Because the subject of the book is ...
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Ecological Risk Assessment of Contaminants in Soil
Many industrialized and developing countries are faced with the assessment of potential risks associated with contaminated land. A variety of human activities have left their impacts on soils in the form of elevated and locally high concentrations of potential toxicants. In several cases sources have not yet ...
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Genomics in Regulatory Ecotoxicology: Applications and Challenges
current approaches for ecological risk assessments. It also identifies biomarkers of exposure and ...
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Ecological Risk Assessment for Contaminated Sites
Love Canal. Exxon Valdez. Times Beach. Sacramento River Spill. Amoco Cadiz. Seveso. Every area of the world has been affected by improper waste disposal and chemical spills. Common hazardous waste sites include abandoned warehouses, manufacturing facilities, processing plants, and landfills. These sites poison the land and contaminate groundwater and drinking ...
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Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment
28 papers in this state-of-the-art publication present regulatory concerns, basic research, risk and hazard assessment, and methods development in environmental toxicology. Sections include: • Ecological Risk Assessment Under TSCA • Evaluating Ecological Impacts at the Population ...
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New Improvements in the Aquatic Ecological Risk Assessment of Fungicidal Pesticides and Biocides
In Europe, the current data requirements for pesticides and biocides are generally regarded to be suitable for the risk assessment of chemicals with an insecticidal and herbicidal mode of action. However, the effects of fungicides, in particular on freshwater microbial communities, are not well known despite the ...
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Ecotoxicology, Ecological Risk Assessment and Multiple Stressors
The interaction between environment and health is far more complex than is commonly understood. In particular, little attention has been paid to the interaction of different pollutants in the human body as well as in the environment. Even low level exposure over a period of time to a complex cocktail of pollutants in air, water, food and consumer products is likely to contribute significantly to ...
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Valuation of Ecological Resources: Integration of Ecological Risk Assessment and Socioeconomics in Environmental Decision Making
Valuation of Ecological Resources: Integration of Ecology and Socioeconomics in Environmental Decision Making examines alternatives for determining the 'value' of complex ecological resources. Integrating the latest concepts in ecology and socioeconomics, the authors discuss how ecology, sociology, and ...
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Landscape Ecology and Wildlife Habitat Evaluation: Critical Information for Ecological Risk Assessment, Land-Use Management Activities, and Biodiversity Enhancement Practices
Eighteen peer-reviewed papers explore the latest information on theoretical and applied ecology, especially as it relates to characterizing environmental risks to wildlife and the requirements of environmental managers.Until recently, many areas which have low to moderate levels of chemical contamination ...
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Biomonitors and Biomarkers as Indicators of Environmental Change
Introduction to Biomonitors and Biomarkers as Indicators of Environmental Change; F.M. Butterworth. Assessing Ecological Risks in Terrestrial Systems with Honey Bees; J.J. Bromenshenk, et al. Aquatic Insects as Biomonitors of Ecosystem Health in the Great Lakes Areas of Concern; L.D. Corkum, et al. ...
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Modern Biogeochemistry
This book is aimed at generalizing the modern ideas of both biogeochemical and environmental risk assessment that have been developed in recent years. Only a few books are available for readers in this interdisciplinary area, since most books deal mainly with various technical aspects of ERA ...
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