Estimating pesticide environmental concentrations in Latin America: The importance of developing local scenarios
| Autor: | Gustavo Souza Santos, Fábio Casallanovo, Thamires Sá de Oliveira Kaminski, Ana Paola Cione, Natalia Peranginangin, Daniela Mejias Simone |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Latin Americans
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences business.industry Geography Planning and Development Environmental resource management Agriculture General Medicine 010501 environmental sciences Pesticide 01 natural sciences United States Soil Latin America Monitoring data media_common.cataloged_instance Environmental science European union Pesticides business Water Pollutants Chemical 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science media_common Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Integrated environmental assessment and managementREFERENCES. 17(5) |
| ISSN: | 1551-3793 |
| Popis: | Data to assess pesticide exposure in soil and water are scarce and unevenly distributed in Latin America, especially due to the size of the region and the vast agricultural landscape. This makes it difficult to assess associated environmental risks. We suggest that the lack of pesticide exposure or monitoring data can be addressed by using validated models to provide estimated pesticide exposure concentrations in soil and water bodies. This exposure modeling approach has been used by regulatory agencies in other countries and regions such as the United States, Canada, and the European Union. In order to properly estimate pesticide exposure concentrations, we advocate for the development of local scenarios containing local weather, soil, and crop data to be used in the existing models. A sensitivity analysis of the models can be performed to determine parameters that are sensitive and therefore inputs to these parameters are derived locally. We believe the development of local scenarios in the region is attainable and can be a pragmatic approach for developing a more comprehensive picture of potential pesticide exposure in the region. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2021;17:901-904. © 2021 Syngenta Protecao de Cultivos Ltda. |
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