volume 124 | number 3 | March 2016 • Environmental Health Perspectives The pages of EHP are replete with studies documenting the potential human health and ecosystem impacts of toxic chemicals. Such research is critical to understanding chemical risks and developing prevention strategies to reduce those risks. Intramural research at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS...

BACKGROUND Given increasing pressures for hazardous chemical replacement, there is growing interest in alternatives assessment to avoid substituting a toxic chemical with another of equal or greater concern. Alternatives assessment is a process for identifying, comparing, and selecting safer alternatives to chemicals of concern (including those used in materials, processes, or technologies) on ...

the assessment of de-desertification alternatives can be effective in controlling the reclamation of disturbed landand avoiding destruction of areas at risk. until now, there has been no method to consider different criteria andalternatives, or to present the optimum alternatives based on systematic structures and experts’ perspectives.desertification is a complex process resulting from various...

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