Toward sustainable environmental quality: Priority research questions for Europe
Paul J. van den Brink
(1, 2)
,
Alistair B. A. Boxall
(3)
,
Lorraine Maltby
(4)
,
Bryan W. Brooks
(5)
,
Murray A. Rudd
(6)
,
Thomas Backhaus
(7)
,
David Spurgeon
(8)
,
Violaine Verougstraete
,
Charmaine Ajao
(9)
,
Gerald T. Ankley
(10)
,
Sabine E. Apitz
(11)
,
Kathryn Arnold
(3)
,
Tomas Brodin
(12)
,
Miguel Canedo-Arguelles
(13, 14)
,
Jennifer Chapman
(3)
,
Jone Corrales
(5)
,
Marie-Agnès Coutellec
(15)
,
Teresa F. Fernandes
(16)
,
Jerker Fick
(17)
,
Alex T. Ford
(18)
,
Gemma Gimenez Papiol
(19)
,
Ksenia J. Groh
(20)
,
Thomas H. Hutchinson
(21)
,
Hank Kruger
(22)
,
Jussi V. K. Kukkonen
(23)
,
Stefania Loutseti
(24)
,
Stuart Marshall
(25)
,
Derek Muir
(26)
,
Manuel E. Ortiz-Santaliestra
(27)
,
Kai B. Paul
(28)
,
Andreu Rico
(29)
,
Ismael Rodea-Palomares
(30)
,
Jörg Römbke
(31)
,
Tomas Rydberg
(32)
,
Helmut Segner
(33)
,
Mathijs Smit
(34)
,
Cornelis A. M. van Gestel
(35)
,
Marco Vighi
(29)
,
Inge Werner
(20)
,
Elke I. Zimmer
(36)
,
Joke van Wensem
(37)
1
Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management
2 WUR - Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen]
3 Environment Department
4 Department of Animal and Plant Sciences
5 Baylor University
6 World Maritime University
7 Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences [Gothenburg]
8 NERC - Natural Environment Research Council
9 ECHA - European Chemicals Agency
10 EPA - United States Environmental Protection Agency
11 SEA Environmental Decisions
12 Department of Ecology and Environmental Science [Umeå]
13 UB - Universitat de Barcelona
14 University of Catalonia
15 ESE - Écologie et santé des écosystèmes
16 Heriot-Watt University
17 Department of Chemistry
18 University of Portsmouth
19 Universitat Rovira i Virgili
20 EAWAG - Swiss Federal Insitute of Aquatic Science and Technology [Dübendorf]
21 Plymouth University
22 Wildlife International
23 JYU - Department of Biological and Environmental Science [Jyväskylä Univ]
24 DuPont de Nemours
25 Unilever Colworth
26 ECCC - Environment and Climate Change Canada
27 Spanish Institute of Game and Wildlife Resources
28 Blue Frog Scientific
29 IMDEA Water Institute
30 UF|ABE - Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering [Gainesville]
31 ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH
32 IVL - Swedish Environmental Research Institute
33 Centre for Fish and Wildlife Health
34 Shell Global Solutions
35 VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam]
36 Ibacon GmbH
37 Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment
2 WUR - Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen]
3 Environment Department
4 Department of Animal and Plant Sciences
5 Baylor University
6 World Maritime University
7 Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences [Gothenburg]
8 NERC - Natural Environment Research Council
9 ECHA - European Chemicals Agency
10 EPA - United States Environmental Protection Agency
11 SEA Environmental Decisions
12 Department of Ecology and Environmental Science [Umeå]
13 UB - Universitat de Barcelona
14 University of Catalonia
15 ESE - Écologie et santé des écosystèmes
16 Heriot-Watt University
17 Department of Chemistry
18 University of Portsmouth
19 Universitat Rovira i Virgili
20 EAWAG - Swiss Federal Insitute of Aquatic Science and Technology [Dübendorf]
21 Plymouth University
22 Wildlife International
23 JYU - Department of Biological and Environmental Science [Jyväskylä Univ]
24 DuPont de Nemours
25 Unilever Colworth
26 ECCC - Environment and Climate Change Canada
27 Spanish Institute of Game and Wildlife Resources
28 Blue Frog Scientific
29 IMDEA Water Institute
30 UF|ABE - Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering [Gainesville]
31 ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH
32 IVL - Swedish Environmental Research Institute
33 Centre for Fish and Wildlife Health
34 Shell Global Solutions
35 VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam]
36 Ibacon GmbH
37 Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment
David Spurgeon
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Violaine Verougstraete
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Marie-Agnès Coutellec
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Résumé
The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals have been established to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all. Delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals will require a healthy and productive environment. An understanding of the impacts of chemicals which can negatively impact environmental health is therefore essential to the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals. However, current research on and regulation of chemicals in the environment tend to take a simplistic view and do not account for the complexity of the real world, which inhibits the way we manage chemicals. There is therefore an urgent need for a step change in the way we study and communicate the impacts and control of chemicals in the natural environment. To do this requires the major research questions to be identified so that resources are focused on questions that really matter. We present the findings of a horizon-scanning exercise to identify research priorities of the European environmental science community around chemicals in the environment. Using the key questions approach, we identified 22 questions of priority. These questions covered overarching questions about which chemicals we should be most concerned about and where, impacts of global megatrends, protection goals, and sustainability of chemicals; the development and parameterization of assessment and management frameworks; and mechanisms to maximize the impact of the research. The research questions identified provide a first-step in the path forward for the research, regulatory, and business communities to better assess and manage chemicals in the natural environment. Environ Toxicol Chem 2018;37:2281-2295. (c) 2018 The Authors. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of SETAC.