Modelling of Environmental Chemical Exposure and Risk

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Pesticide Fate Models and Their Use Focus Activities

   • Jan B. H. J. Linders

   Pages 1-15

3. Models Used in the USA for the Evaluation of Pesticide Exposure, Hazard and Risk Assessment

   • Mark H. Russell

   Pages 17-30

4. Quality Assurance in Environmental Modelling

   • Gyula Dura, Elizabeth Laszlo

   Pages 31-37

5. Possible Approaches for Pesticides Environmental Impact Management

   • M. G. Prodanchuk, Alexandr P. Kravchuk

   Pages 39-46

6. Pesticide Leaching Modelling Validation

   • Marnik Vanclooster

   Pages 47-59

7. Evaporation of Pure Liquids from Open Surfaces

   • Fredric C. Arnold, Alfred J. Engel

   Pages 61-71

8. Application of Uses for Estimation of PEC for Pesticides and Hazard Assessment for Aquatic Environment

   • Veska Kambourova, Kosta Vassilev

   Pages 73-78

9. Modelling of Operator Exposure

   • Antonella Fait, Bengt S. Iversen

   Pages 79-89

10. Use of Alarm Model in Accidental Pollution of Danube River

    • Silvia Chitimiea, Aurel Varduca

    Pages 91-96

11. Results of the Use of Two Environmental Models for Pesticides Ranking by Hazard

    • Fina Kaloyanova, Gyula Dura, Veska Kambourova

    Pages 97-103

12. Recent Developments in Environmental Modelling at Trent University, Canada

    • Ian Cousins, Matt Macleod, Eva Webster, Don Mackay

    Pages 105-116

13. Macro: A Preferential Flow Model to Simulate Pesticide Leaching and Movement to Drains

    • Sabine Beulke, Colin D. Brown, Nicholas J. Jarvis

    Pages 117-132

14. A Scientific and Technological Framework for Evaluating Comparative Risk in Ecological Risk Assessments

    • John M. Johnston

    Pages 133-150

15. Comparing Two Alternative Pollutant Dispersion Models and Actual Data within an Environmental Health Information Processing System (EHIPS)

    • Boris Balter, M. Stal’naya, Victor Egorov

    Pages 151-164

16. RBCA Toolkit: Comprehensive Risk-Based Modelling System for Soil and Groundwater Clean-Up

    • John A. Connor, P. E. Richard, L. Bowers, Thomas E. Mchugh

    Pages 165-181

17. Danish EPA Use of Models for Assessment of Pesticides Mobility

    • Christian Deibjerg Hansen

    Pages 183-192

18. An Optimization Model for the Control of Regional Air Quality in Europe

    • Markus Amann, Chris Heyes, Marek Makowski, Wolfgang Schöpp

    Pages 193-203

19. Spatial Refinement of Regional Exposure Assessment

    • Volker Berding, Frank Koormann, Stefan Schwartz, Jan-Oliver Wagner, Michael Matthies

    Pages 205-222

20. The Future of the Environmental Modeling in Risk Assessment in Slovenia

    • Boris Kolar

    Pages 223-225

Mathematical models are being increasingly used to estimate the concentrations of a wide range of substances in the environment for a variety of reasons, including government control and legislation, and risk and hazard estimation. Exposure assessment has to be performed for many types of substances, including pesticides, industrial chemicals, pollutants, accidental discharges, etc. The interpretation of the results of model equations should always bear in mind the purpose for which the model used was built in the first place. Further, models are always an abstraction of reality, requiring simplifying assumptions to keep the models within the restraints posed by computer performance and/or scientific knowledge.
The present book treats the theme of modelling chemical exposure and risk in terms of four main topics: model characteristics, applications, comparison of estimated with measured concentrations, and modelling credibility.

• Assessment
• Groundwater
• RSI
• environment
• hazard
• optimization
• pesticide
• pollution
• quality assurance
• soil
• ecotoxicology

• RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

  Jan B. H. J. Linders

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