Research Management in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River Basins: Challenges and Opportunities

Challenges in the Successful Research Management of a Collaborative EU Project

“…Recently many authors define research management as opposed to the “research administration” which is a core centralized approach required to conduct a medical research (3). This new approach not only requires all partners’ active participation, but also of communities, other interest groups, stakeholders and policymakers (4). There is an inter-connection between research strategies and successful management and this link is very important since the achievements of a research can be proved to be the key of scientific research management (5).…”

Societal Costs of Exposure to Toxic Substances: Economic and Health Costs of Four Case Studies That Are Candidates for Environmental Causation

“…These publications have emerged in fairly rapid succession from independent scientists, government agencies, and nongovernment public interest groups (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11).…”

The environment as a cornerstone of public health.

“…After reviewing findings in wildlife, laboratory animals, and humans demonstrating adverse affects from exposure to persistent toxic substances (PTS) found in the Great Lakes Basin, the International Joint Commission (1997) concluded that sufficient evidence is available … to demonstrate that exposures to certain toxic substances … have been sufficient to harm human health and that without interventions, future exposures will continue to harm human health. This is relevant more generally because it has been determined that the levels of persistent toxic substances identified in the environment in the Great Lakes are not substantially different than elsewhere in the United States (De Rosa et al 1999). This finding is even more compelling in view of the fact that exposures of vulnerable communities (including sport and subsistence fishermen, men and women of reproductive age, the developing fetus, children, the aged, the urban poor, and the immunologically compromised) may have exposures in some instances from 2 to 8 times higher than the general population.…”