Editorial: Integrated approaches to risk assessment and risk communication

摘要

The papers in this volume are based on presentations given at a workshop on 'From risk assessment to risk response' held at the University of Athens, on 2 and 3 April 2008. The workshop was organised and partly supported by four EU-funded research projects -Integrated Assessment of Risks to Health of Environmental Stressors in Europe (INTARESE), Health and Environment Integrated Methodology and Toolbox for Scenario Assessment (HEIMTSA), Full-chain and Uncertainty Approaches for Assessing Health Risks in Future Environmental Scenarios (2-FUN) and Novel Methods for Integrated Risk Assessment of Cumulative Stressors in Europe (NoMiracle) - in association with the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health. This editorial essay draws out some of the key questions and themes that run through the papers included here, and in many of the presentations and discussions at the meeting.