As described in Chapter 4, risk assessment is an important analytic tool used to evaluate the effects of environmental stressors on ecosystem and human health. This tool has been applied over the past ...

The proposed legislation to speed up infrastructure projects is designed to eliminate red tape. But environmental regulations ...

Chemical regulations exist to safeguard human and environmental health throughout a substance’s life cycle (sourcing, manufacture, intended use phase, and disposal). Regulatory decisions require ...

The causative agent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. To date, the virus ...

The pace at which developments of biomarkers occur tends to exceed the biomonitoring community’s ability to cope with its obligations to ensure proper transmission of information on the meaning of the ...

Discover essential risk assessment methods, including qualitative and quantitative analyses, to make informed investment ...

One of the most important changes to New Zealand’s environmental regulations in recent years came into force this week. Yet outside policy circles, the forestry sector and a handful of councils, few ...