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- Governmental organizations and institutes
- Online databases
- Networks
- Software
- Publications
- Mail lists
- Symposia & Conferences
- Other risk links
Governmental organizations and institutes
The Netherlands
| VROM | Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (NL) Soil policy: legislation, publications, FAQ, discussion platform, links. (In Dutch and English). |
| RIVM | National Instute of Public Health and the Environment (NL) Soil and Groundwater Research Laboratory (In English and Dutch). |
Belgium
| OVAM | Openbare Afvalstoffenmaatschappij voor het Vlaamse Gewest (BE) Policy on soil (In English and Dutch). |
| VITO | Flemish Institute for Technological Research (BE) (In English and Dutch). |
| EMIS | Het Energie en Milieu Informatiesusteem voor het Vlaamse Gewest (In Dutch) |
France
| INERIS | INERIS: Institute National de l’Environnement et des Risques French Environment and Risk Institute |
| FASP | French approach on contaminated land management. The site gives information on the French environmental policy and legislation, on technical guidance documents an on conferences, formations and research programs. |
United Kingdom
| Environment Agency | News, information, research and data about the environment of England and Wales. |
Europe
| EEA | European Environment Agency. Europe's gateway to environmental information maintained by the European Environment Agency and EIONET partners. |
USA
| EPA | United States Environmental Protection Angency (home page). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency protects human health and safeguards the natural environment — air, water, and land — upon which life depends. |
| EPA region 9 PRG | Region 9 Preliminary Remediation Goals. Information how to use PRG, and tables with PRG's for residential soils or industrial soils. |
| EPA NCEA | ORD's National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) serves as the national resource center for the overall process of human health and ecological risk assessments; the integration of hazard, dose-response, and exposure data and models to produce risk characterizations. |
| CNIE | National Council for Science and the Environment and the National
Library for the Environment (USA). Information on the CNIE, online publications, bulletin board. |
| Waste Site Cleanup | Documents of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. |
Online databases
| ITER | International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER) Database. ITER now contains information over 500 chemicals, including data and links to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s IRIS database, Canada risk values Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) and many of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's (ATSDR) chronic minimal risk levels (MRLs). |
| IRIS database | Integrated Risk Information System Database (Database of EPA with physical-chemical data and guidelines (RfD / RfC) of substances). |
| IRIS info page | Integrated Risk Information System. |
| FDB | Environmental Fate Data Bases. Users may identify all of the information necessary for assessing human or environmental exposure to chemicals from occupational and consumer use, environmental contamination, and food consumption. |
Networks
The Netherlands
| SKB | Stichting Kennisontwikkeling en kennisoverdracht Bodem (NL) The foundation SKB is a co-operation between government and private sector. All interested parties in soil management can participate (In Dutch). |
Europe
| NICOLE | NICOLE (Netwerk for Industrially Contaminated Land in Europe) is an European network of companies (mainly industry) with soil quality management problems on the one hand and soil (assessment and decontamination) experts to potentially provide solutions on the other (In English). |
| CARACAS | CARACAS is a Concerted Action initiative within the Environment
and Climate Programme of the European Commission DG XII. 16 European
Countries are participating in the CARACAS project with scientists
from national environmental authorities and research organisations.
CARACAS co-ordinates current research initiatives on contaminated land risk assessment in Europe and identifies priority research tasks for future R&D programmes (In English). |
| CLARINET | CLARINET is a Concerted Action within the Environment & Climate Programme of the European Commission DG XII, co-ordinated by the Austrian Environment Agency. The project started on the 1st of July 1998 and will continue for 3 years. CLARINET will integrate and combine the knowledge of academics, government experts, consultants, industrial land owners and technology developers from 16 European countries (In English). |
USA and Canada
| Harvard School of Public Health Health Insight |
Advances in science and technology continue to increase the amount of health information available to the media and public. This project seeks to help consumers evaluate health and scientific information and considers how the information can be used to improve their lives.(USA) Harvard School of Public Health. |
| CNTC | Canadian Network of Toxicology Centres improves Ecosystems and Human Health through understanding of toxicology (CAN). |
| BELLE | BELLE (Biological Effects of Low Level Exposures) is a group of scientists that encourages the assessment of the biological effects of low level exposures (BELLE) to chemical agents and radioactivity (USA). |
Software
| CIRIA | CIRIA’s mission is to improve the performance of all concerned with construction and the environment. |
| EPA Benchmark Dose Software | Possible to download the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Benchmark Dose Software (BMDS). |
| RAMAS | RAMAS ecological software: Population and Community-level Risk Assessment, Linking Landscape Data with Population Viability Analysis, Risk Assessment with Uncertain Numbers etc. |
Publications
| Report | Environmental risk assessment: an Australian perspective. |
Mail lists
| Riskanal Links | RISKANAL is a mail list for people interested in all aspects of
risk analysis; its membership is international and heavily involved with human health and environmental risk assessment, but a few economists and others have joined as well. |
Symposia & Conferences
| Consoil 2005 | ConSoil is the leading conference on contaminated soil management in Europe. |
| Prague 2003 | The sixth International Symposium and Exhibition on Environmental Contamination in Central and Eastern Europe (Prague 2003) is part of an on-going series of symposia which focus on global environmental problems from the perspective of Central and Eastern Europe. |
Other risk links
Europe
| CER | The Centre for Environmental Risk (CER) was formed at the end of 1997 with the aim of developing an interdisciplinary approach to risk management which will combine the natural and social sciences (UK). |
| Race | Risk Abatement Centre for Central and Eastern Europe. RACE is an indepedent, international non-profit organization. |
| Bodempagina | Overview of links related to soil (in Dutch). |
| Bodemnieuws | Information, news and discussion about soil contamination topics (in Dutch). |
USA
| CQS | CQS Health and Environment is the home of: Health Alert & ToxicAlert. |
| Toxic Alert | Health Alert is a public service of CQS, a consulting organization
in Acton, MA. Our mission is to make complex technical information
about health and the environment so that it is accessible and understandable
by most people and to provide alternatives and health information
so that people can keep themselves, their families, and their communities
healthy. |
| Health Alert | Health Alert is a public service of CQS, a consulting organization
in Acton, MA. Our mission is to make complex technical information
about health and the environment so that it is accessible and understandable
by most people, and to provide alternatives and health information
so that people can keep themselves, their families, and their communities
healthy. |
| RAC | Risk Assessment Corporation (RAC) is active in the fields of radiological and chemical risk assessment. |
| The Keystone Center | The Keystone Center is a non-profit, public policy and educational organization founded in 1975. The Center is headquartered in Keystone, Colorado, with an office in Washington, DC (USA). The Keystone Center identifies issues of great importance to the quality of life which it can constructively address. |
| ERF | Environmental Research Foundation (ERF) was founded in 1980 to provide understandable scientific information about the influence of toxic substances on human health and the environment (USA). |
| OEHHA | Office of Environmental Heatlh Hazard Assessment. The OEHHA protects and enhances public health and the environment by objective scientific evaluation of risks posed by hazardous substances. |
| Riskworld | Covering news and views on risk assessment & management. |
| Risk Analysis Center | This site contains abstracts covering the wide variety of risks that affect you as a human being. |
| CSI | Compliance Services International provides innovative approaches to solving regulatory and environmental challenges. CSI combines traditional sciences with developing technologies to better characterize chemical products and environmental concerns. |
| Sediments Research Web | The Sediments Research Web is an online community designed to promote improvements in the management and remediation of contaminated sediments. |
| AEHS | The Association for Environmental Health and Sciences (AEHS) |
| SmartSampling | SmartSampling is a risk-based, goal-oriented process that provides an objective and quantitative framework for improving remedial designs, for direct mapping of risk levels and cost alternatives, and for real-time decisions as excavation proceeds. SmartSampling is a risk-based, goal-oriented process that provides an objective and quantitative framework for improving remedial designs, for direct mapping of risk levels and cost alternatives, and for real-time decisions as excavation proceeds. |