Environmental chemistry impact assessment

Sustainability, environmental impact assessment and, 10 245 Sustainable chemistry, 24 162 Sustainable development, 24 197 chemistry and, 24 162-205 economic-ecological efficiency and, 24 188-189... 

LCA activity has three components as defined by the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) life-cycle inventory, life-cycle impact assessment. 

Barnthouse, L. Fava, J. Humphreys, K. Hunt, R. Laibson, L. Noesen, S. Norris, G. et al. (eds.), Evolution and Development of the Conceptual Framework and Methodology of Life-Cycle Impact Assessment an Addendum to Life-Cycle Impact Assessment The State-of-the-Art, 2nd edn., Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Pensacola, FL, 1997. 

Assessments of environmental impacts from herbicides are usually done at the single-species level. These assessments use toxicological data from laboratory bioassay tests and estimates of exposure from laboratory or field studies of environmental chemistry. Few tests have assessed the impacts of herbicides on organisms in the field and few, if any, at the ecosystem level. There are two main reasons why there have been so few field or ecosystem tests They are exceedingly difficult and costly, and the current philosophies of risk assessment have evolved from classical toxicology and the federal regulatory framework that covers pharmaceuticals, food additives, and pesticides. 

Kassim TA, Simoneit BRT, Williamson KJ (2005) Forensic investigation of leachates from recycled solid wastes An environmental analysis approach. In Kassim TA, Williamson KJ (eds) Environmental Impact Assessment of Recycled Wastes on Surface and Ground Waters Volume 3 Concepts, Methodology and Chemical Analysis. Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Water Pollution Series, Vol 5/Part F. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York 321-400... 

Koliopoulos, T.C. 2008a. Carbon dioxide emissions at Mid Auchencarroch experimental site and environmental impact assessment—Utilization of remote sensing and digital image processing software for an integrated landfill gas risk assessment. RASAYAN Journal of Chemistry, l(4) 766-73. 

H. A. Udo de Haes, G. Finnveden, M. Goedkoop, M. Hauschild, E. G. Hertwich, P. Hofstetter, O. Jolliet, W. Klopffer, W. Krewitt, E. Lindeijer, R. Muller-Wenk, S. I. Olsen, D. W. Pennington, J. Potting and B. Steen, Eds., Life-Cycle Impact Assessment Striving Towards Best Practice, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Pensacola, FL, 2002. 

Barnthouse, L., J. Fava,K. Humphreys, R. Hunt, L. Laibson, S. Noesen, J.W. Owens, J.A. Todd, B. Vigon, J. Young, Eds. 1997. Life-Cycle Impact Assessment The State-of-the-Art. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Pensacola, FL. Bartell, S.M., R.H. Gardner, and R.V. O Neill, Eds. 1992. Ecological Risk Estimation. Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, MI, p. 252. 

Wharfe, J.R. (1996). Toxicity-based criteria for the regulatory control of waste discharges and for environmental monitoring and assessment in the United Kingdom. In Toxic Impacts of Wastes on the Aquatic Environment, Tapp, J.F., Hunt, S.M. and Wharfe, J.R. (eds), pp. 26-35. Royal Society of Chemistry, London. 

Udo de Haes H.A. (ed.) (1996) Towards a Methodology for Life Cycle Impact Assessment. Report from the SETAC-Europe Working group on Impact Assessment, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Brussels. 

Michael is currently Chief of the Systems Analysis Branch in the US Environmental Protection Agency s (US EPA s) Office of Research and Development. His branch conducts life cycle assessment, impact assessment, and sustainable chemistry research. Michael has also served as the Senior Advisor of Green Chemistry to the Office of Research and Development (ORD) and was responsible for integrating green chemistry and engineering into ORD s research portfolio. 

Warner, C. John, S., Amy, Cannon, Kevin M. Dye, Green Chemistry. Environmental impact Assessment Review, 24 77S-799, 2004... 

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