ENVS 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Probabilistic Risk Assessment, Ecotoxicology, Risk Assessment

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Sciences
• Course: ENVS 3020
• Professor: Ryan Prosser

Document Summary

You will explore the procedures used to assess and manage the risks of pesticide use. Using the topic you selected for the class activity in the ecotoxicology unit, you will further consider how it relates to probabilistic risk assessment in particular and risk assessment and management in general. To date we have considered a number of toxicology and ecotoxicology endpoints. In addition, we have examined a number of characteristics of pesticides, organisms and their environment that can modify the potential for non-target effects. In this unit on risk, we will examine how toxicology and exposure information is combined to assess and manage the risks of pesticide use. In the toxicology and ecotoxicology units, we examined a number of endpoints that can be used to measure the relative toxicity of pesticides. Throughout the course, we have also considered how the characteristics of pesticides and their environment can modify toxicity as well as the likelihood non-target organisms will be exposed.