Risk assessment river basin management

Keywords Ecosystem services, European river basins, Risk assessment, Risk management, River basin management plans, Water framework directive... 

Blum WEH (2007) Role of soils in river basin management. In 1st Riskbase Thematic Workshop, Monitoring and Assessment of River Pollutants a step towards the implementation of risk based management plans. Oral presentation, Lisbon, May 17-18... 

To assess, forecast, and mitigate the risks of key toxicants on fresh water and marine ecosystems and their biodiversity at a river basin and adjacent marine environment scale focusing on DSSs for the selection of the most efficient management options to prevent effects on biodiversity and to prioritise contamination sources and contaminated sites. 

GREAT-ER. 2005. A GIS assisted model for environmental risk assessment and management of chemicals in river basins, http //www.great-er.org/pages/home.cfm (accessed December 15, 2005). 

On November 18-20, 1998, a workshop on Scientific Issues Relevant to the Assessment of Health Effects from Exposure to Methylmercury was conducted in Raleigh, North Carolina. The workshop was jointly sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and ATSDR. The purpose of this workshop was to discuss and evaluate the major epidemiologic studies that associated methylmercury exposure and the results of an array of developmental measures in children. These studies monitored and evaluated exposed populations in Iraq, the Seychelles Islands, the Faroe Islands, and the Amazon River Basin. A number of animal studies were also considered in support of a human health risk assessment. 

River Basin Risk Assessment Linked to Monitoring and Management... 

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