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Contaminated Systems, Risk Assessment and Remediation Strategies
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The research strategy of the PEER network “Contaminated Systems, Risk Assessment and Remediation Strategies” has the following aims:
· Provide risk analysis of environmental contamination:
- Quantification of soil and water pollutant levels in the EU
- Scientifically justifiable environmental standards for soil and water
- Integrated decision support tools for sustainable ecosystem management
- A scheme for effective risk communication
- Refinement of risk management and remediation tools
· Provide generally accepted and policy-supported tools for risk assessment and risk management procedures across the EU
· Develop an Emergency Task Force for biological, chemical and physical accidents and crisis
· Provide tools to mitigate impacts on human health:
- Risk assessment under multiple stressor scenarios (e.g. exposure to multiple chemicals under fluctuating environmental conditions)
- Determination of appropriate limit values
- Idenfication of new vectors for, and causes of, disease and ill-health
- Development of new diagnostic and prognostic techniques
· Develop remediation strategies, especially consistent and harmonized procedures (protocols) for new and emerging remediation technologies
· Provide expertise on system-immanent driving forces such as
- Bioavailability, degradation, formation and fate of metabolites
- Mass balance, discrimination of biotic/abiotic processes
- Kinetics and reefs, endpoints, compilation criteria
- Proof of long term efficacy, costs
- Collaborate benefits, spin-off
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For more information on this research network please contact:
Dr Hans Løkke
NERI - National Environmental Research Institute
Vejlsøvej 25
8600 Silkeborg
Denmark
Tel.: +45-8920-1400
Fax: +45-8920-1414
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