Structure-function conflation in environ-mental risk assessment and monitoring

摘要：

Recently, I attended a conference organised by the European Food Safety Authority in the beautiful and prosperous Italian city of Parma. The overall topic of the conference was risk assessment, and the pro-gram included a section on aspects of environmental risk assessment. In various areas, including the evalu-tion of the effects of pesticide applications, invasive organisms or genetically modified plants ( Arpaia et al.,2014) preparing an environmental risk assessment is an obviously relevant exercise. Actually, I prefer if it were called an environmental impact assessment, which would help to save us from seeing”risks” every-where. Additionally, this can easily lead to a patronis-ing attitude, as if”the general public” were unhelpful children, to be guided through the various risks by ( usually self-appointed ) Wise Guardians. However, this is a sideline, and not the core of my story.

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在线出版日期：2019-02-20（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）

页数：共3页

页码：233-235