Ecotoxicology, Ecological Risk Assessment and Multiple Stressors

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. THE SCIENCE OF ECOTOXICOLOGY: ESTABLISHING THE INTERNATIONAL BASIS FOR ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT

   1. CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT

      • Lawrence A. KAPUSTKA

      Pages 1-24

   2. FROM MOLECULE TO ECOSYSTEMS: ECOTOXICOLOGICAL APPROACHES AND PERSPECTIVES

      • Gerassimos D. ARAPIS

      Pages 25-39

   3. PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT AGAINST IONISING RADIATION: THE PATH PROPOSED BY “ICRP”, ITS ORIGINS AND ANALYSIS

      • François BRECHIGNAC

      Pages 41-55

   4. ECOEPIDEMIOLOGY: A MEANS TO SAFEGUARD ECOSYSTEM SERVICES THAT SUSTAIN HUMAN WELFARE

      • Susan M. CORMIER

      Pages 57-72

   5. PERCHLORATE: ECOLOGICAL AND HUMAN HEALTH EFFECTS

      • Jacquelyn CLARKSON, Shawn SAGER, Betty LOCEY, Lu YU, Eric SILBERHORN

      Pages 73-93

   6. GENETIC ECOTOXICOLOGY AND RISK ASSESSMENT: AN OVERVIEW

      • Nadezhda V. GONCHAROVA

      Pages 95-105

3. ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT AND MULTIPLE STRESSORS

   1. SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR ECOTOXICOLOGY, ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT AND MULTIPLE STRESSORS: CANADIAN EXPERIENCE IN DEFINING ACCEPTABLE RISK LEVELS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE

      • Ruth N. HULL

      Pages 107-123

   2. RISK ASSESSMENT IN ROMANIA: FROM LEGISLATION TO NEEDS AND POSSIBILITIES

      • Constantin-Horia BARBU, Adriana MORARIU, Camelia SAND, Sorin GIURGIU

      Pages 125-135

   3. ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR PLANT PROTECTION PRODUCTS IN EUROPE

      • Manousos FOUDOULAKIS

      Pages 137-154

   4. ASSESSMENT OF ECOLOGICAL RISK CAUSED BY THE LONG-LIVING RADIONUCLIDES IN THE ENVIRONMENT

      • Valery KASHPAROV

      Pages 155-164

   5. EFFECTS OF CONTAMINANT EXPOSURE ON PLANTS: RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT IMPLICATIONS FOR ECOTOXICOLOGY AND

      • Stanislav A. GERAS’KIN, Alla A. OUDALOVA, Vladimir G. DIKAREV, Denis V. VASILIEV, Nina S. DIKAREVA

      Pages 165-179

   6. RISK ASSESSMENT: RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATED FOOD PRODUCTS AND EXPOSURE DOSE OF THE POPULATION

      • Nadezhda V. GONCHAROVA, Darya A. BAIRASHEUSKAYA

      Pages 181-189

4. METHODS AND TOOLS IN ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT

   1. A HABITAT SUITABILITY EVALUATION TECHNIQUE AND ITS APPLICATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT

      • Alexander GREBENKOV, Alexei LUKASHEVICH, Igor LINKOV, Lawrence A. KAPUSTKA

      Pages 191-201

   2. THE QND MODEL/GAME SYSTEM: INTEGRATING QUESTIONS AND DECISIONS FOR MULTIPLE STRESSORS

      • Gregory A. KIKER, Igor LINKOV

      Pages 203-225

   3. THE MEDAKA FISH: AN EXPERIMENTAL MODEL IN ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY ITS USE FOR THE SURVEY OF MICROALGAL TOXINS: PHYCOTOXINS AND CYANOTOXINS

      • Simone PUISEUX – DAO, Marec EDERY

      Pages 227-241

   4. CYTOGENETIC EFFECT OF RADIOACTIVE OR CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION ON SPRING BARLEY INTERCALARY MERISTEM CELLS

      • Stanislav A. GERAS'KIN, Jin Kyu KIM, Vladimir G. DIKAREV, Alla A. OUDALOVA, Nina S. DIKAREVA, Yevgeniy V. SPIRIN

      Pages 243-254

   5. WATER POLLUTION INDICATORS OF SUSTAINABILITY IN EUROPE, AND THEIR APPLICATION TO COASTAL WATER QUALITY EVALUATION IN ITALY

      • Elena COMINO

      Pages 255-267

   6. APPLICATION OF GIS TECHNOLOGIES IN ECOTOXICOLOGY: A RADIOECOLOGICAL CASE STUDY

      • Nataliya GRYTSYUK, Vasily DAVYDCHUK, Gerassimos ARAPIS

      Pages 269-278

   7. AMBIENT OZONE PHYTODETECTION WITH SENSITIVE CLOVER (TRIFOLIUM SUBTERRANEUM L. CV. GERALDTON) IN UKRAINE

      • Oleg BLUM, Nataliya DIDYK

      Pages 279-289

The science of ecotoxicology and the practice of ecological risk assessment are evolving rapidly. Ecotoxicology as a subject area came into prominence in the 1960s after the publication of Rachel Carson's book on the impact of pesticides on the environment. The rise of public and scientific concern for the effects of chemical pollutants on the environment in the 1960s and 1970s led to the development of the discipline of ecotoxicology, a science that takes into account the effects of chemicals in the context of ecology. Until the early 1980s, in spite of public concern and interest among scientists, the assessment of ecological risks associated with natural or synthetic pollutants was not considered a priority issue by most government. However, as the years passed, a better understanding of the importance of ecotoxicology emerged and with it, in some countries, the progressive formalization of an ecological risk assessment process. Ecological risk assessment is a conceptual tool for organizing and analyzing data and information to evaluate the likelihood that one or more stressors are causing or will cause adverse ecological effects. Ecological risk assessment allows risk managers to consider available scientific information when selecting a course of action, in addition to other factors that may affect their decision (e. g. , social, legal, political, or economic). Ecological risk assessment includes three phases (problem formulation, analysis, and risk characterization).

• agroecosystems
• atmospheric pollution
• contamination
• ecosystem
• ecosystems
• ecotoxicology
• environment
• environmental risk assessment
• human health effects
• pest management
• pesticide
• pollutants
• remediation
• toxicology
• water quality
• air pollution and air quality

• Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

  Gerassimos Arapis

• International Sakharov Environmental University Minsk, Belarus

  Nadezhda Goncharova

• Cornell University Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.

  Philippe Baveye

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