Pesticide Environmental Risk Assessments

Dear Colleagues,

With around 40% of global food production lost to pests and diseases each year even with the use of chemical pesticides, it is obvious that crop protection chemicals are vital to ensuring a secure, stable supply of safe, quality food at affordable prices. However, the use of pesticides does come with a cost as they have the potential to damage environmental quality and impact negatively on biodiversity. Consequently assessments to evaluate the extent of the risk have an important role to play in ensuring effective regulatory, management and mitigation processes can be adopted. These assessments take many different formats depending on their objective, scale and end user. They can be highly complex and sophisticated mathematical models for use by regulators or simple decision aides for use in the field. They can address just one issue, such as water quality or the protection of pollinators, or they can be multi-issue. They can be undertaken at farm, regional or national scale. All have their place in the risk assessment arena.

This special journal issue will focus on studies and processes that describe advances in pesticide environmental risk assessment. Topics covered are broad, but will include: (i) methodological approaches, theory and principles; (ii) risk characterization; (iii) case studies such as those that demonstrate an effective use of a novel approach; (iv) risk policy, standards and legislation; (v) risk management and mitigation; and (vi) environmental risk perception and communication.

Prof. Dr. Kathleen Lewis
Dr. John Tzilivakis
Guest Editors

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