Scientific Principles for Centain Environmental Assessments

该补助金的目的是支持 编写背景报告，就下列问题提供指导： 对评估日益重要的两个研究领域， 环境风险管理。 这些报告将有助于 更好地理解风险评估的作用， 环境决策，并将有助于建立一个未来 鼓励科学家之间互动的研究议程 参与风险评估，公共政策和决策。 这两个研究领域在理论上和实践上都有着密切的联系。 应用程序. 第一个领域是全球累积影响， 包括全球变暖、海平面上升和 臭氧层损耗 OEQ工作将提供一份声明， 科学原理来帮助人们关注那些 最令人关切的环境和健康影响， 协助制定适当的缓解战略。 第二个领域是新兴技术， 对人类的各种好处，包括减少环境污染， 一些现有技术的侵入性替代品。 OEQ 努力将提供指导使用的技术， 评估与下列活动有关的健康和环境影响： 这些新兴技术，前提是敏感性 这些潜在的影响需要在早期阶段， 技术开发。

The purpose of this grant is to provide support for the preparation of background reports that will provide guidance on two research areas of growing importance to the assessment and management of environmental risks. These reports will contribute to an improved understanding of the role of risk assessment in environmental decision making and will help to establish a future research agenda that will encourage interaction among scientists involved in risk assessment, public policy, and decision making. The two research areas are closely linked, both by theory and by application. The first area is global cumulative impacts, including impacts such as global warming, sea level rise, and ozone layer depletion. The OEQ effort will provide a statement of scientific principles to help focus attention on those environmental and health effects of greatest concern and to assist in the development of appropriate mitigation strategies. The second area is emerging technologies, which offer the promise of various benefits to mankind including less environmentally invasive alternatives to some existing technologies. The OEQ effort will provide guidance on the use of techniques for assessing the health and environmental impacts associated with these emerging technologies, under the premise that sensitivity to these potential impacts is required at an early stage of technology development.