Citation
Pistocchi, Alberto and Groenwold, Jan and Lahr, Joost and Loos, Mark and Mujica, Marelys and Ragas, Ad M. J. and Rallo, Robert and Sala, Serenella and Schlink, Uwe and Strebel, Kathrin and Vighi, Marco and Vizcaíno Martínez, María Pilar
(2011).
Mapping Cumulative Environmental Risks: Examples from The EU NoMiracle Project.
"Environmental Modeling and Assessment", v. 16
(n. 2);
pp. 119-133.
ISSN 1420-2026.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10666-010-9230-6.
Abstract
We present examples of cumulative chemical risk mapping methods developed within the NoMiracle project. The different examples illustrate the application of the concentration addition (CA) approach to pesticides at different scale, the integration in space of cumulative risks to individual organisms under the CA assumption, and two techniques to (1) integrate risks using data-driven, parametric statistical methods, and (2) cluster together areas with similar occurrence of different risk factors, respectively. The examples are used to discuss some general issues, particularly on the conventional nature of cumulative risk maps, and may provide some suggestions for the practice of cumulative risk mapping.