Forecasting the Environmental Fate and Effects of Chemicals

Philip S. Rainbow and Steve P. Hopkin are the authors of Forecasting the Environmental Fate and Effects of Chemicals, published by Wiley.

"an excellent introduction and state-of-the-art reference" (The British Toxicology Society Newsletter, December 2001)

• List of Contributors.Foreword.Introduction (M. Crane, et al.). Limits to Forecasting in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (M. Crane).Uncertainty in Toxicological Predictions: The Bayesian Approach to Statistics (A. O'Hagan).Improving Inferential Strength of Exposure and Effect Forecasting: Working Outside the Box (M. Newman & M. Roberts).Linking Pollutant Transport, Environmental Forecasting and Risk Assessment: Case Studies from the Geosphere (S. Pollard & R. Duarte-Davidson).The EU-TGD for New and Existing Substances: Does it Predict Risk? (T. Jager & J. de Bruijn).Can a Substance-Specific Chemical Approach Forecast the Toxicity of Effluents? (M. Tonkes).Forecasting the Environmental Effects of Zinc, the Metal of Benign Neglect in Soil Ecotoxicology (S. Hopkin & D. Spurgeon).Forecasting in an Uncertain World: Managing Risks or Risky Management? (D. Santillo, et al.). Modelling of Toxicity to the Ciliate Tetrahymena pyriformis: The Aliphatic Carbonyl Domain (M. Cronin, et al.). Application of a Transgenic Stress-Inducible Nematode to Soil Biomonitoring (R. Power & D. de Pomerai).Can Animal Behaviour Predict Population Level Effects? (E. Baatrup, et al.). Forecasting Effects of Toxicants at the Community Level: Four Case StudiesComparing Observed Community Effects of Zinc with Forecasts from a GenericEcotoxicological Risk Assessment Method (L. Posthuma, et al.). Prediction of Sediment Quality in the Dutch Coastal Zone: Model Validation and Uncertainty Analysis for Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn, PCBs and PAHs (H. Sonneveldt & R. Laane).Biomonitoring of Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Trace Metal Bioavailabilities in Tolo Harbour, Hong Kong, Using Barnacles and Mussels (G. Blackmore & P. Rainbow).Author Index.Species Index.Subject Index.