Risk management



Sudden changes in our environment, such as floodings, droughts, man-induced or natural such as a tsunami, show the susceptability of our well-developed society. Management of the effects of these events becomes more and more important. Predictions of likelihood and fast recovery are main items. Also pollution events, suddenly or insidious, are core topics in our science group, including judgement of environmental risks in controlled experimental facilties for admittance of pesticides.

A few examples of these projects:

International

  • BERISP: European project focussing on the spatial behaviour of animalsintegrating this with the spatial occurence of contaminants (www.berisp.org)
  • No Miracle: novel methods for integrated risk assessment of chemicals in europe (nomiracle.jrc.it/default.aspx)
  • PERAP: Development of pesticide environmental risk assessment procedures to be used in the Chinese national pesticide registration system (www.perap.cn)
  • Soil contamination: a framework of cooperation with institutes in Europe(including Germany, Poland, France, Spain, Italy) and outside Europe (such as China and Taiwan) in the area of food safety. The aim of the research is to arrive at a better indication of the suitability of contaminated soil for use as agricultural land


National

  • BOP (Netherlands Research Programme on Particulate Matter): research into air pollution caused by particulate matter (www.mnp.nl/nl/dossiers/fijn_stof/index.html)
  • GEMMA: this project focuses on the development of an expertise system for controlling contagious animal diseases
  • Regional soil contamination: the Alterra research institute is conducting a survey in the Krimpenerwaard and the Veenweidegebied near the town of  Woerden concerning the possible risks of soil contamination for the health of livestock and the soil ecosystem
  
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