Assessing risks to endangered and threatened species from pesticides / Committee on Ecological Risk Assessment under FIFRA and ESA, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Ecological Risk Assessment under FIFRA and ESA, issuing body.

Contributor:

United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, sponsoring body.

United States. Department of Agriculture, sponsoring body.

United States. Environmental Protection Agency, sponsoring body.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sponsoring body.

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pesticides and wildlife.

Endangered species.

Pesticides--Risk assessment.

Pesticides.

Ecological risk assessment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) are responsible for protecting species that are listed as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and for protecting habitats that are critical for their survival. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for registering or reregistering pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and must ensure that pesticide use does not cause any unreasonable adverse effects on the environment, which is interpreted to include listed species and their critical habitats. The agencies have developed their own approaches to evaluating environmental risk, and their approaches differ because their legal mandates, responsibilities, institutional cultures, and expertise differ. Over the years, the agencies have tried to resolve their differences but have been unsuccessful in reaching a consensus regarding their assessment approaches. As a result, FWS, NMFS, EPA, and the US Department of Agriculture asked the National Research Council (NRC) to examine scientific and technical issues related to determining risks posed to listed species by pesticides. Specifically, the NRC was asked to evaluate methods for identifying the best scientific data available; to evaluate approaches for developing modeling assumptions; to identify authoritative geospatial information that might be used in risk assessments; to review approaches for characterizing sublethal, indirect, and cumulative effects; to assess the scientific information available for estimating effects of mixtures and inert ingredients; and to consider the use of uncertainty factors to account for gaps in data. Assessing Risks to Endangered and Threatened Species from Pesticides, which was prepared by the NRC Committee on Ecological Risk Assessment under FIFRA and ESA, is the response to that request.

Contents:

Introduction

A common approach and other overarching issues

Exposure analysis

Effects analysis

Risk characterization

Appendixes.

Notes:

"Sponsors: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service"--Page v.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780309285865

0309285860

9780309285841

0309285844

OCLC:

923289746