Assessment and management of pesticide pollution at a river basin level part II: Optimization of pesticide monitoring networks on surface aquatic ecosystems by data analysis methods

Tsaboula, Aggeliki; Menexes, George; Papadakis, Emmanouil-Nikolaos; Vryzas, Zisis; Kotopoulou, Athina; Kintzikoglou, Katerina; Papadopoulou‐Mourkidou, Euphemia

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.270

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“…Moreover, it cannot be stated with certainty that the water is uncontaminated because no studies have so far examined the levels of pesticide-related pollution in the rivers and streams which are located in the study area. Meanwhile, in the wider region of Thessaly two studies have indicated that certain water ecosystems have been contaminated with pesticides, heavy metals and other residues [24,25]. Moreover, our findings showed that most respondents do not bury the containers in fields, do not burn them and do not dispose of them in landfills.…”

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Is the Environmental Behavior of Farmers Affecting Their Pesticide Practices? A Case Study from Greece

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Policymakers often assume that farmers with pro-environmental behavior are more likely to follow proper pesticide practices and thus, in order to improve the safety of their pesticide practices, they implement strategies and programs designed to raise environmental awareness among the general public. The aim of this paper is to examine whether pro-environmental behavior can instigate proper pesticide practices among farmers. According to our results, farmers’ environmental behavior does not affect their pesticide practices and thus strategies aiming at raising environmental awareness among the general public would not prompt them to follow proper pesticide practices. In addition, the respondents reported following overall proper practices such as wearing masks and appropriate clothes during sprayings as well as rinsing the empty containers by performing the triple-rinse method. However, they did not wear gloves during applications, and many disposed the remaining pesticide concentrate to non-arable land. To conclude, in order to improve farmers’ pesticide practices, strategies and programs specifically designed for farmers must be developed because those addressed to the general public would not be effective. Moreover, certain improper practices found in this study ought to be addressed by policymakers and actors involved in the agricultural sector.

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“…In other words, CatPCA transforms nominal and ordinal variables into scale variables 43 . As in the case of the PCA, it reduces the observed variables into a number of principal components while overcoming the limitations of linear PCA 47 . However, in this study, CatPCA was used only as a ‘tool’ to quantify the categorical variables involved in the analysis and not to explore the internal structure of the data, as in the case of a typical PCA.…”

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Dental caries and psychosocial factors: Testing a conceptual model in adolescents

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Comm Dent Oral Epid

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Objectives A conceptual model was designed to examine interrelations among psychosocial factors, oral health behaviour, and dental caries in a sample of adolescents. Methods This cross‐sectional study design of 531 Greek families included an oral examination and a survey completed by adolescents, and a survey completed by mothers. The outcome measure was dental caries experience. Additionally, dental sealants were recorded. The participants provided information which comprised the Sense of Coherence (SoC) scale and 11 psychosocial and behavioural variables that formed 6 composite variables (life‐course experiences, socio‐economic status, perceived parental support, perceived parental punishment, preventive measures, sugar intake frequency). The composite variables of preventive measures and sugar intake formed the latent variable of oral health behaviour. The interrelations of the above factors were included in a conceptual model and tested using a Structural Equation Modelling analysis. Results Data fit the proposed conceptual model (χ2 = 23.338, df = 14, P = .055, RMSEA = 0.036). Among psychosocial variables, adolescent's SoC was the best predictor of both dental caries (Standardized Regression Coefficient ‐ Std. RC ± Standard Error (SE) = −0.178 ± 0.04) and oral health behaviour (Std. RC ± SE = −0.378 ± 0.09). All psychosocial factors were associated with SoC (Std. RCs ± SE between −0.162 ± 0.04 and 0.211 ± 0.04) and via SoC with oral health behaviour (Std. RCs ± SE between −0.080 ± 0.03 and 0.061 ± 0.02). Conclusions A conceptual model was tested that integrated SoC with the psychosocial factors theoretically shaping it and clarified all factors’ predictive abilities on dental caries via oral health behaviour.

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“…Identification and categorization of sampling stations vulnerable to pesticide contamination could help in the establishment of a cost-effective monitoring scheme without losing valuable information. Tsaboula et al, 2019b, developed an optimum surface water monitoring network at the catchment-scale including only those catchments vulnerable to pesticide pollution. With their methodology Tsaboula et al, 2019b include left-censored data of the analytical results that are commonly excluded from monitoring reports, RA exercises and management plans.…”

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“…Tsaboula et al, 2019b, developed an optimum surface water monitoring network at the catchment-scale including only those catchments vulnerable to pesticide pollution. With their methodology Tsaboula et al, 2019b include left-censored data of the analytical results that are commonly excluded from monitoring reports, RA exercises and management plans. With this approach Tsaboula et al, achieved 46% reduction in the number of the monitoring stations without losing valuable data.…”

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Pesticide prioritization approaches and limitations in environmental monitoring studies: From Europe to Latin America and the Caribbean

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Ramwell

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2020

Environment International

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Assessment and management of issues related to pesticide residues, such as environmental fate, monitoring and toxicity, are complex and, in many cases, require costly studies. The early establishment of a priority list of pesticides that should be monitored and assigned to a restricted-use policy is an important issue of post-registration Risk Assessment (RA). Various pesticide registration approaches have been adopted by different countries with those from Europe and the USA being the most popular, constituting the major prototypes for registration approaches in other countries. Adoption of pesticide registration and monitoring systems developed in Europe or USA by Latin American and Caribbean countries may underestimate factors affecting the environmental fate and toxicity of pesticides in their own countries. Incentive for this short review was the activities undertaken during the three KNOWPEC workshops held in Costa Rica, Argentina and Bolivia where European pesticide experts met Latin American experience in the form of Costa Rica's exceptional environmental conditions and ecology, Argentina's and Uruguay's soyisation and Bolivia's contrasting climate and agricultural zones. During the parallel activities of the workshop -including scientific presentations, field trips, interviews and meetings among European partners and pesticide stakeholders in Latin America, -the whole pesticide chain (import-export, trade, application, plant protection-efficacy, residues, monitoring, remediation and risk) was studied and clarified. Recently-published chemical prioritization studies were reviewed to consider their use as a tool to support risk assessments. Differences in regional practices are highlighted as regards to the establishment of RA or prioritization strategy in European and Latin American regimes. General guidance of establishing a cost-effective pesticide monitoring scheme in water bodies of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is also proposed. Moreover, we summarize the most important factors that should be taken into consideration for prioritization approaches and categorization used in pesticide environmental monitoring studies. Consideration of current RA approaches and limitations, and pesticide prioritization exercises highlighted in this Commentary could assist in the management of pesticides in Latin America and Caribbean. Pesticide registration and risk assessment in Europe and USA and their limitationsPesticides are cited as being essential to prevent food shortages in support of an ever-increasing global population (Carvalho, 2006). The inherent toxicity of pesticides and their intentional release into the environment requires significant steps to be taken to ensure that they do not pose an unacceptable risk to the environment or human health.

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Assessment and management of pesticide pollution at a river basin level part II: Optimization of pesticide monitoring networks on surface aquatic ecosystems by data analysis methods

Cited by 35 publications

References 55 publications

Is the Environmental Behavior of Farmers Affecting Their Pesticide Practices? A Case Study from Greece

Is the Environmental Behavior of Farmers Affecting Their Pesticide Practices? A Case Study from Greece

Dental caries and psychosocial factors: Testing a conceptual model in adolescents

Pesticide prioritization approaches and limitations in environmental monitoring studies: From Europe to Latin America and the Caribbean

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