Environmental Priorities

[Environmental pollution. Determination of priorities for action programs].

Global environmental changes: setting priorities for Latin American coastal habitats.

As the effects of the Global Climate Changes on the costal regions of Central and South Americas advance, there is proportionally little research being made to understand such impacts. This commentary puts forward a series of propositions of strategies to improve performance of Central and South American science and policy making in order to cope with the future impacts of the Global Climate Ch...

Research Priorities to Improve Future Environmental Water Outcomes

1 Environmental Hydrology and Water Resources Group, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 2 Law School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3 Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia, 4 Institute for Water Education, IHE Delft, Delft, Netherlands, 5 The Murray Darling Freshwater Rese...

EPA priorities for biologic markers research in environmental health.

Recent advances in molecular and cellular biology allow for measurement of biologic events or substances that may provide markers of exposure, effect, or susceptibility in humans. The application of these new and emerging techniques to environmental health offers the possibility of significantly reducing the uncertainties that traditionally hamper risk assessments. The U.S. Environmental Protec...

The environmental health of children: priorities in Europe.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate existing research on the environmental health of children and provide a prioritised list of risk factors and policy recommendations for action, the Policy Interpretation Network on Children's Health and Environment (PINCHE) was set up within EU FP5 (QLK4-2002-02395). The project focused on air pollutants, carcinogens, neurotoxicants and noise. PINCHE was a multidisciplina...