Fate of Pesticides in the Atmosphere Implications for Environmental Risk Assessment

About this book

This volume contains the proceedings of an international workshop on the issue of "Fate of pesticides in the atmosphere - implications for risk assessment" held in 1998 in The Netherlands. Topics include emission, dispersion, transport and transformations of pesticides in the atmosphere, and the ecotoxicological risks of pesticides in remote areas. Laboratory and field measurements are reviewed, and modelling of the atmospheric processes that affect pesticides are discussed. Various risk assessment approaches are presented, and possible statutory environmental criteria that could be incorporated into pesticide regulation in order to limit their atmospheric dispersion are explored. This book presents a complete review of the science of this subject with the aim of investigating the possibilities of incorporating long-range transport potential of pesticides into protocols for estimating their environmental risks and their registration.

Contents

1. Atmospheric transport of pesticides: assessing environmental risks; H.F.G. van Dijk, et al. 2. Environmental risk assessment for pesticides in the atmosphere; the results of an international workshop; R. Guicherit, et al. 3. Atmospheric dispersion of current-use pesticides: a review of the evidence from monitoring studies; H.F.G. van Dijk, R. Guicherit. 4. Ecotoxicological risk assessment of pesticides subject to long-range transport; N.M. van Straalen, C.A.M. van Gestel. 5. Micrometeorologic methods for measuring the post-application Volatilization of pesticides; M.S. Majewski. 6. Atmospheric transport and air-surface exchange of pesticides; T.F. Bidleman. 7. Modelling of atmospheric transport and deposition of pesticides; J.A. van Jaarsveld, W.A.J. van Pul. 8. Regulatory risk assessment of pesticide residues in air; A.J. Gilbert. 9. Emission of pesticides into the air; F. van den Berg, et al. 10. Transformations of pesticides in the atmosphere: a state of the art; R. Atkinson, et al. 11. Atmospheric transport and deposition of pesticides: an assessment of current knowledge; W.A.J. van Pul. 12. Implementing atmospheric fate in regulatory risk assessment of pesticides: (how) can it be done? D.J. Bakker, et al. List of participants. The organising committee. About the Health Council of the Netherlands.

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