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Pollution --- Environmental toxicology --- Environmental monitoring --- Environmental risk assessment --- Biotic communities --- Environmental aspects --- Congresses --- Environment --- Agrotechnology and Food Sciences. Toxicology --- Toxic chemicals --- Congresses. --- Environmental Toxicology, Ecotoxicology --- Toxic chemicals. --- Environmental Toxicology, Ecotoxicology. --- TOXICOLOGY --- CHEMICALS --- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION --- ECOSYSTEMS --- Safety evaluation --- Monograph --- Toxicology. --- Chemicals. --- Environmental protection. --- Biotic communities. --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Ecology --- Population biology --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- Chemical compounds --- Compounds, Chemical --- Chemistry --- Chemicals --- Medicine --- Pharmacology --- Poisoning --- Poisons --- Toxicology --- Pollution - Environmental aspects - Congresses --- Environmental toxicology - Congresses --- Environmental monitoring - Congresses --- Environmental risk assessment - Congresses --- Biotic communities - Congresses

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Many potential questions regarding the risks associated with the development and use of wide-ranging technologies enabled through engineered nanomaterials. For example, with over 600 consumer products available globally, what information exists that describes their risk to human health and the environment? What en- neering or use controls can be deployed to minimize the potential environmental health and safety impacts of nanomaterials throughout the manufacturing and product lifecycles? How can the potential environmental and health benefits of nanotechnology be realized and maximized? The idea for this book was conceived at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on “Nanomaterials: Environmental Risks and Benefits and Emerging Consumer Products. ” This meeting – held in Algarve, Portugal, in April 2008 – started with building a foundation to harmonize risks and benefits associated with nanomaterials to develop risk management approaches and policies. More than 70 experts, from 19 countries, in the fields of risk assessment, decision-analysis, and security discussed the current state-of-knowledge with regard to nanomaterial risk and benefits. The discussion focused on the adequacy of available risk assessment tools to guide nanomaterial applications in industry and risk governance. The workshop had five primary purposes: Describe the potential benefits of nanotechnology enabled commercial products. Identify and describe what is known about environmental and human health risks of nanomaterials and approaches to assess their safety. Assess the suitability of multicriteria decision analysis for reconciling the benefits and risks of nanotechnology.

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The book contains the contributions at the NATO Study Institute on Exposure and Risk Assessment of Chemical Pollution – Contemporary Methodology, which took place in Sofia – Borovetz, Bulgaria, July 1–10, 2008. Rapid advances in mathematics, computer science and molecular biology and chemistry have lead to the development in of a new branch of toxicology called Computational Toxicology. This emerging field is addressing the estimation and prediction of exposure risk and effects of chemicals based on experimental data, measured concentration and biological mechanisms and computational models of biological systems. Mathematical models are also being used to predict the fate and transport of substances in the environment. Because this area is still in its infancy, there has been limited application from governmental agencies to regulating controllable processes, such as registration of new chemicals, determination of estimated exposure and risk based limits and maximum acceptable concentrations in different compartments of the environment – ambient air, waters, soil and food products. However, this is soon to change as the ability to collect, analyze and interpret the required information is becoming increasingly more efficient and cost effective. Full implementation of the new processes have to involve education on both part of the experimentalists who are generating the data and the models, and the risk assessors who will use them to better protect human health and the environment.

Chemical industry -- Risk assessment -- Congresses. --- Chemical industry -- Safety measures -- Congresses. --- Chemicals -- Risk assessment -- Congresses. --- Environmental risk assessment -- Congresses. --- Pollution -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses. --- Agriculture - General --- Environmental Engineering --- Ecology --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Agriculture --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Pollution. --- Hazardous wastes. --- Hazardous waste disposal --- Poisonous wastes --- Toxic waste disposal --- Toxic waste release --- Toxic wastes --- Waste disposal --- Wastes, Hazardous --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Pollution --- Environmental aspects --- Environment. --- Analytical chemistry. --- Noise control. --- Soil science. --- Soil conservation. --- Environmental pollution. --- Environmental Monitoring/Analysis. --- Noise Control. --- Pollution, general. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Analytical Chemistry. --- Terrestrial Pollution. --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental quality --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Hazardous substances --- Analytical biochemistry. --- Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. --- Analytic biochemistry --- Biochemistry --- Chemistry, Analytic --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Soils --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Noise prevention --- Acoustical engineering --- Noise --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Bioanalytic chemistry --- Bioanalytical chemistry --- Analytical chemistry --- Environmental monitoring. --- Analysis, Chemical --- Analytic chemistry --- Chemical analysis --- Chemistry --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Earth sciences --- Biomonitoring (Ecology) --- Ecological monitoring --- Monitoring, Environmental --- Applied ecology --- Measurement --- Monitoring --- Environmental sciences. --- Environmental science --- Science