Management of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks. Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Changing Environment

Table of Contents

Introduction to Emerging Risks The exposome: a new tool for improved health risk assessment

Part 1: New Risks 1. Indoor Air and Public Health 2. Advanced manufacturing processes and technologies 3. Multi-dimensional Impacts of Nanotechnology on Public Health

Part 2: Known Risks in New Locations 4. The emergence of vector borne diseases in new location 5. Radioactive remains 6. Human spaces and inhumane species: social representations of the risk of invasion

Part 3: Known Issues Now Recognized as Risks Due to an Increase in Scientific Knowledge and/or A Change in the Perception of the Population 7. Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Organisms as Environmental Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Addressing Global Health Risks 8. Risk perception of pharmaceutical residues in the aquatic environment and precautionary measures 9. Chemistry and psychology, cross views on pesticides Risks 10. Assessment and management of risks associated with antibiotic resistance in the environment

Authors

Benoit Roig Professor of Risk and Public Health, Universite de Nimes. Dr. Roig is professor in risk sciences. He is head of the CHROME laboratory (EA7352) dealing with the characterisation and management of chronic and emerging risks. He was involved in numerous project focussed on the impact of contaminated environment on human population. He was the Scientific Coordinator of the EU funded PHARMAS Project, which assesses the risks to wild animals and humans posed by environmental exposure to pharmaceuticals. He has published numerous articles on risk related to environmental waters. Currently member of the Occitanie regionnal expert panel for small and high water cycle. Previously member to the scientific board of the research program for environment and health of ANSES as well as member of European external Expert panels for endocrine disrupting chemicals . Karine Weiss Professor of Environmental Psychology, Universite de Nimes. Dr. Weiss has contributed actively to the consolidation and dissemination of environmental psychology in France. Together with her colleagues from the Laboratory of Environmental Psychology at the University Paris-Descartes, she promoted the creation of the Association of Francophone Environmental Psychology (ARPEnv). She has published articles on various aspects of environmental psychology, from social psychological and from social representation approaches, including welfare; the relationship of the individual with natural resources and natural hazards; risk and risk management, both in natural and built environments, syndrome of the sick building, and environmental psychology in France. Veronique Thireau Doctor of Economics, Universite de Nimes, France. Dr. Thireau has published over a dozen articles in Institutional Economics, Industrial Organization, Economic Geography.