Interconnections Between Human and Ecosystem Health

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Interconnections between human and ecosystem health: opening lines of communication

      • Richard T. Di Giulio, Emily Monosson

      Pages 3-6

3. Mechanistic Linkages

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Ah receptors and the mechanism of dioxin toxicity: insights from homology and phylogeny

      • Mark E. Hahn

      Pages 9-27

   3. Comparative studies of molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis in herbicide-exposed bivalves

      • Rebecce J. Van Beneden

      Pages 29-43

   4. Emerging issues: the effects of endocrine disrupters on reproductive development

      • L. Earl Gray Jr, Emily Monosson, William R. Kelce

      Pages 45-82

4. Empirical Evidence for Linkages

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. The Great Lakes: a model for global concern

      • Theo Colborn

      Pages 85-90

   3. Establishing possible links between aquatic ecosystem health and human health: an integrated approach

      • S. Marshall Adams, Mark S. Greeley Jr

      Pages 91-102

5. Interdependence between Human and Ecosystem Health

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Ecosystems as buffers to human health

      • Fumio Matsumura

      Pages 105-113

   3. Interfacing product life cycles and ecological assimilative capacity

      • John Cairns Jr

      Pages 115-123

6. The Risk Assessment Paradigm

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Ideological and human health risk assessment: a comparison

      • Joanna Burger, Michael Gochfeld

      Pages 127-148

   3. Toxicological and biostatistical foundations for the derivation of a generic interspecies uncertainty factor for application in non-carcinogen risk assessment

      • Edward J. Calabrese, Linda A. Baldwin

      Pages 149-158

   4. Ecological risk assessment and sustainable environmental management

      • Steven M. Bartell

      Pages 159-179

7. Socioeconomic and Psychological Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Measuring economic values for ecosystems

      • V. Kerry Smith

      Pages 183-198

   3. Perceptions of risk to humans and to nature: a research plan

      • Paul Slovic, Timothy McDaniels, Lawrence J. Axelrod

      Pages 199-209

Ecotoxicology is a relatively new scientific discipline. Indeed, it might be argued that it is only during the last 5-10 years that it has come to merit being regarded as a true science, rather than a collection of procedures for protecting the environment through management and monitoring of pollutant discharges into the environment. The term 'ecotoxicology' was first coined in the late sixties by Prof. Truhaut, a toxicologist who had the vision to recognize the importance of investigating the fate and effects of chemicals in ecosystems. At that time, ecotoxicology was considered a sub-discipline of medical toxicology. Subsequently, several attempts have been made to portray ecotoxicology in a more realistic light. Notably, both Moriarty (1988) and F. Ramade (1987) emphasized in their books the broad basis of ecotoxicology, encompassing chemical and radiation effects on all components of ecosystems. In doing so, they and others have shifted concern from direct chemical toxicity to humans, to the far more subtle effects that pollutant chemicals exert on natural biota. Such effects potentially threaten the existence of all life on earth. Although I have identified the sixties as the era when ecotoxicology was first conceived as a coherent subject area, it is important to acknowledge that studies that would now be regarded as ecotoxicological are much older.

• assessment
• biology
• degradation
• ecology
• ecosystem
• environment
• human health
• toxicology
• ecotoxicology

...the volume discusses how the same environmental insults affect both humans and the rest of the planet...The main asset of the volume is the strength of the contributors. - Trends in Ecology and Evolution

• Duke University, Durham, USA

  Richard T. Giulio

• Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

  Emily Monosson

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