Linking Aquatic Exposure and Effects: Risk Assessment of Pesticides

Linking Aquatic Exposure and Effects: Risk Assessment of Pesticides provides guidance and recommendations for linking aquatic exposure and ecotoxicological effects in the environmental assessment of agricultural pesticides. Leading international scientists share their expertise in aquatic exposure assessment, aquatic ecotoxicology, and the risk assessment and management of plant protection products. The book incorporates the tools and approaches currently available for assessing the environmental risks of time-variable exposure profiles of pesticides. It also discusses the science behind these techniques.

This volume covers the extrapolation techniques, including models that address the environmental fate, toxicokinetics, toxicodynamics, and ecological effects, for performing accurate aquatic environmental risk assessments of pesticides. It explains how to link aquatic exposure and effects in the risk assessment procedure for plant protection products.

ISBN 978-1-4398-1347-8, 440 pp

Member Price $99, Non-Member Price $130

Ecological Models for Regulatory Risk Assessments of Pesticides: Developing a Strategy for the Future

Bringing together more than thirty influential regulators, academics, and industry scientists, Ecological Models for Regulatory Risk Assessments of Pesticides: Developing a Strategy for the Future provides a coherent, science-based view on ecological modeling for regulatory risk assessments. It discusses the benefits of modeling in the context of registrations, identifies the obstacles that prevent ecological modeling being used routinely in regulatory submissions, and explores the actions needed to overcome these obstacles.

Focusing on ecological models, such as unstructured population models, stage-structured matrix models, and individual- or agent-based models, this volume helps regulatory authorities, manufacturers, and scientists assess the risk of plant protection products in nontarget organisms. Armed with this knowledge, readers will better understand the challenges of using ecological modeling in the regulatory process.

ISBN 978-1-4398-0513-8, 149 pp

Member Price $55, Non-Member Price $100

Aquatic Macrophyte Risk Assessment for Pesticides

Given the essential role that primary producers play in aquatic ecosystems, it is imperative that the potential risk of pesticides to the structure and functioning of aquatic plants is adequately assessed. An integration of regulatory and research information from key specialists in the area of environmental regulation, Aquatic Macrophyte Risk Assessment for Pesticides provides a state-of-the-art guide to ecotoxicological risk assessment. Written by well-known experts in the field of aquatic risk assessment, this book is a practical reference for the assessment of the risk of pesticides with herbicidal activity to aquatic macrophytes.

The book supplies a concise, coherent, and science-based view from influential regulators, academics, and industry scientists. The editors address the selection of additional species, critical regulatory endpoints, and assessment of the risk of plant protection products to aquatic macrophytes. They also present a clear description of key issues in macrophyte risk assessment, information on macrophyte test methods, suitable measurement endpoints, and data evaluation and interpretation.

Filled with recommendations distilled from existing regulatory experiences of aquatic macrophyte risk assessment, the book includes case studies to identify issues, data gaps, and inadequacies in study design. It also identifies improvements to risk assessment that could be implemented immediately and those for which further research is needed. An authoritative resource, the book points the way to an improved approach to aquatic macrophyte risk assessment.

ISBN 978-1-4398-2211-1, 156 pp

Member Price $88, Non-Member Price $120

Derivation and Use of Environmental Quality and Human Health Standards for Chemical Substances in Water and Soil

A balanced, comprehensive overview of Environmental Quality Standards (EQS), Derivation and Use of Environmental Quality and Human Health Standards for Chemical Substances in Water and Soil addresses the selection and prioritization of substances for standard derivation. With integrated content and up-to-date information on assessment of regulations that affect the derivation and use of EQS, it examines the derivation of these standards and their implementation to protect human health and the environment.

The book is based on contributions from thirty-five scientists, regulators, and policy makers from eleven countries with individual expertise across disciplines such as risk assessment, environmental, health, economic, and social sciences. These scientists summarize current knowledge on aquatic and terrestrial environmental quality standards, placing these standards in a wider socioeconomic and regulatory context. The book explains how to derive environmental standards that are defensible from a scientific and socioeconomic perspective. Using multidisciplinary techniques applicable to water, sediments, and soils; the text demonstrates how to select the best form and derivation method relative to individual environmental standards.

The book presents an in-depth examination of when, where, and how to implement environmental standards based on the social and economic context. It includes detailed coverage of technical approaches that shed light on the derivation and implementation of EQS. It also identifies future research that will help to underpin the science of environmental and human health standards.

ISBN 978-1-4398-0344-8, 168 pp

Member Price $29, Non-Member Price $120

Risk Assessment Tools Software and User's Guide

This software-user manual combination contains a collection of 5 tools to help formulate hazard and risk assessments, accommodating both small and large data sets. The software programs are estimating acute toxicity (EAT) for determining EC50, LC50, ED50, and LD50; adjusting toxicity values for hardness of pH of water and transforming total ammonia to unionized ammonia, the toxic form (TA); estimating acute and chronic toxicity when only one or a few data are available (ICE and ACE); and developing species sensitivity or exposure distributions (HA).

Although other methods may accomplish the same or similar estimations or extrapolations, these are our preferred choices, based on the authors' many years of experience in environmental toxicology and statistics.

ISBN 978-1-880611-97-5, 84 pp

Member Price $50, Non-Member Price $75

Copper: Environmental Fate, Effects, Transport and Models: Papers from Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 1982 to 2008 and Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 2005 to 2008

This compilation of papers on environmental chemistry, fate, effects, modeling, and regulatory findings should prove a valuable resource for those interested in risk assessments of copper in the environment and their regulatory implications.

Made possible by a contribution from the Copper Development Association.

ISBN 978-1-880611-96-8, DVD-ROM

Member Price $20, Non-Member Price $85