Ettore Capri is at Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Istituto di Chimica Agraria ed Ambientale, Sezione Chimica Vegetale, Piacenza, Italy

• Proposed ContentsChapter 1: Agronomic, pesticide and water management in rice paddies (A. Ferrero).Chapter 2: Regulatory Aspects of pesticide risk assessment (A. Craven).Chapter 3: Water resource contamination in paddy areas (E. Capri).Chapter 4: Ecotoxicological aspects of pesticide risk assessment in rice (J.V. Tarazona).Chapter 5: Pesticide exposure assessment in rice paddies: the lower-tier analysis (R. Jackson, S. Cervelli).Chapter 6: Higher tier exposure assessment in rice paddy areas – a European perspective (D.G. Karpouzas, Z. Miao).Chapter 7: Pesticide exposure assessment in rice paddy areas – an Asian perspective (H. Watanabe, J. Tournebitze).Chapter 8: Pesticide exposure assessment in rice paddy areas – an American perspective (A. Ritter).Chapter 9. Socio-economic assessment of the risk-benefit relationship in rice-cultivating countries(G. Canali).

Ettore Capri is at Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Istituto di Chimica Agraria ed Ambientale, Sezione Chimica Vegetale, Piacenza, Italy

• Proposed ContentsChapter 1: Agronomic, pesticide and water management in rice paddies (A. Ferrero).Chapter 2: Regulatory Aspects of pesticide risk assessment (A. Craven).Chapter 3: Water resource contamination in paddy areas (E. Capri).Chapter 4: Ecotoxicological aspects of pesticide risk assessment in rice (J.V. Tarazona).Chapter 5: Pesticide exposure assessment in rice paddies: the lower-tier analysis (R. Jackson, S. Cervelli).Chapter 6: Higher tier exposure assessment in rice paddy areas – a European perspective (D.G. Karpouzas, Z. Miao).Chapter 7: Pesticide exposure assessment in rice paddy areas – an Asian perspective (H. Watanabe, J. Tournebitze).Chapter 8: Pesticide exposure assessment in rice paddy areas – an American perspective (A. Ritter).Chapter 9. Socio-economic assessment of the risk-benefit relationship in rice-cultivating countries(G. Canali).