M A J HuijbregtsSummaryAffiliation: University of Nijmegen Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Geographical scenario uncertainty in generic fate and exposure factors of toxic pollutants for life-cycle impact assessmentM A J Huijbregts
Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, NL 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Chemosphere 51:501-8. 2003..This uncertainty is mainly caused by the continental difference in the average soil erosion rate, the dimensions of the fresh water and agricultural soil compartment, and the fraction of drinking water coming from ground water...- Evaluating uncertainty in environmental life-cycle assessment. A case study comparing two insulation options for a Dutch one-family dwellingMark A J Huijbregts
Department of Environmental Studies, University of Nijmegen, P O Box 9010, NL 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Environ Sci Technol 37:2600-8. 2003..The thickest insulation option has the lowest impact on global warming and eutrophication, and the highest impact on stratospheric ozone depletion... 
Model and input uncertainty in multi-media fate modeling: benzo[a]pyrene concentrations in EuropeMara Hauck
Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, P O Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Chemosphere 72:959-67. 2008..Our results indicate that uncertainty in Simplebox can be as large as three orders of magnitude for BaP concentrations in the environment and would be substantially underestimated by focusing on one source of uncertainty only...- Human population intake fractions and environmental fate factors of toxic pollutants in life cycle impact assessmentMark A J Huijbregts
Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Wetland and Water Research, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6500GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Chemosphere 61:1495-504. 2005..e. the distinction between rural and urban air, including rain-no rain conditions and including soil depth dependent intermedia transport... - Critical body residues linked to octanol-water partitioning, organism composition, and LC50 QSARs: meta-analysis and modelA Jan Hendriks
Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Wetland and Water Research, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, PO Box 9010, NL 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Environ Sci Technol 39:3226-36. 2005..Moreover, the concept is applied to species (e.g., plants, lean animals) and substances (e.g., specific modes of action) that were scarcely studied quantitatively so far... - Substance or space? The relative importance of substance properties and environmental characteristics in modeling the fate of chemicals in EuropeAnne Hollander
Department of Environmental Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, P O Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Environ Toxicol Chem 28:44-51. 2009..It is argued that the influence of environmental characteristics as predictors of exposure concentrations of chemicals deserves better attention in comparative risk assessment with conventional nonspatial multimedia box models... - Bioaccumulation potential of air contaminants: combining biological allometry, chemical equilibrium and mass-balances to predict accumulation of air pollutants in various mammalsKarin Veltman
Department of Environmental Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, P O Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 238:47-55. 2009.... - A new twist on an old regression: transfer of chemicals to beef and milk in human and ecological risk assessmentA Jan Hendriks
Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Wetland and Water Research, Faculty of Science, Mathematics and Computing Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Chemosphere 70:46-56. 2007..Several possibilities for additional refinement are identified... - Cadmium accumulation in herbivorous and carnivorous small mammals: meta-analysis of field data and validation of the bioaccumulation model Optimal Modeling for Ecotoxicological ApplicationsKarin Veltman
Department of Environmental Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, P O Box 9010, Toernooiveld 1, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Environ Toxicol Chem 26:1488-96. 2007..Comparison with empirical elimination rates shows that rate constants of loss are accurately predicted assuming that cadmium is only released via growth dilution... - Including sorption to black carbon in modeling bioaccumulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: uncertainty analysis and comparison to field dataMara Hauck
Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, P O Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Environ Sci Technol 41:2738-44. 2007..This implies that including routine measurements of BC contents is crucial in improving risk estimations of PAHs... - The impact of an additional ecotoxicity test on ecological quality standardsIrmgard Henning-de Jong
Department of Environmental Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, P O Box 9010, NL 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Ecotoxicol Environ Saf 72:2037-45. 2009..The paper identifies indicators that can be used to evaluate the potential impact of an extra ecotoxicity test... - Development and implementation of a right-to-know web site that presents estimated cancer risks for air emissions of large industrial facilitiesAd M J Ragas
Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Wetland and Water Research, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Integr Environ Assess Manag 2:365-74. 2006.... - Is cumulative fossil energy demand a useful indicator for the environmental performance of products?Mark A J Huijbregts
Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Wetland and Water Research, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, P O Box 9010, NL 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Environ Sci Technol 40:641-8. 2006..A major reason for this high uncertainty is nonfossil energy related emissions and land use, such as landfill leachates, radionuclide emissions, and land use in agriculture and forestry... - Human-toxicological effect and damage factors of carcinogenic and noncarcinogenic chemicals for life cycle impact assessmentMark A J Huijbregts
Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Wetland and Water Research, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Integr Environ Assess Manag 1:181-244. 2005..The interspecies conversion factor, the (non)cancer effect conversion factor, and the average noncancer damage factor dominate the overall uncertainty... - A comparison between the multimedia fate and exposure models CalTOX and uniform system for evaluation of substances adapted for life-cycle assessment based on the population intake fraction of toxic pollutantsMark A J Huijbregts
Department of Environmental Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6500GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Environ Toxicol Chem 24:486-93. 2005..Finally, it was found that quantitative structure-activity relationship estimates for superhydrophobics may introduce considerable uncertainty in the calculation of population intake fractions... - Estimating the impact of high-production-volume chemicals on remote ecosystems by toxic pressure calculationJasper V Harbers
Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Wetland and Water Research, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Environ Sci Technol 40:1573-80. 2006..With 95% confidence, 283 of the 343 chemicals (83%) contribute negligibly (less than 0.1%) to overall toxic pressure, and only 60 (17%) need further consideration... - Prediction of ecological no-effect concentrations for initial risk assessment: combining substance-specific data and database informationWillem Roelofs
Department of Environmental Studies, University of Nijmegen, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Environ Toxicol Chem 22:1387-93. 2003..Sample calculations indicate that the proposed method may provide a good alternative for currently applied methods for initial risk assessment, particularly if few toxicity data are available... - Calculating life-cycle assessment effect factors from potentially affected fraction-based ecotoxicological response functionsDik Van De Meent
National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Laboratory of Ecological Risk Assessment, P O Box 1, 3720BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Environ Toxicol Chem 24:1573-8. 2005..When such conditions are not met or if necessary parameter values are unavailable, use of a fixed value for the TMoA-specific component is recommended... - Uncertainty in msPAF-based ecotoxicological effect factors for freshwater ecosystems in life cycle impact assessmentRosalie van Zelm
Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, PO Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Integr Environ Assess Manag 3:203-10. 2007..It is recommended that the ecotoxicological effect factor of a chemical is based on toxicity data of at least 4 species... - Empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial European-scale multimedia fate models: results and implications for chemical risk assessmentJames M Armitage
Department of Applied Environmental Science ITM, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
J Environ Monit 9:572-81. 2007..These results were discussed in terms of factors influencing model performance such as the steady-state assumption, inaccuracies in emission estimates and the representativeness of monitoring data... - PestScreen: a screening approach for scoring and ranking pesticides by their environmental and toxicological concernRonnie Juraske
Department of Chemical Engineering, ETSEQ, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Av Paisos Catalans 26, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
Environ Int 33:886-93. 2007..Results for 217 pesticides are presented and the practical implementation is illustrated on behalf of three practical case studies... - Spatial variability and uncertainty in ecological risk assessment: a case study on the potential risk of cadmium for the little owl in a Dutch river flood plainLammert Kooistra
Centre for Geo Information, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Environ Sci Technol 39:2177-87. 2005..Further research that expands the procedure presented in this paper is necessary to improve the incorporation of spatial factors in ecological risk assessment... - Species sensitivity distributions for suspended clays, sediment burial, and grain size change in the marine environmentMathijs G D Smit
Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies, P O Box 57, 1780 AB, Den Helder, The Netherlands
Environ Toxicol Chem 27:1006-12. 2008.... - Normalisation in product life cycle assessment: an LCA of the global and European economic systems in the year 2000Anneke Wegener Sleeswijk
GLOBRIGHT, Reitzstraat 7, 2332 XV Leiden, The Netherlands
Sci Total Environ 390:227-40. 2008.... - Ranking of agricultural pesticides in the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt basin based on toxic pressure in marine ecosystemsIrmgard Henning-de Jong
Department of Environmental Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Environ Toxicol Chem 27:737-45. 2008..4 x 10(-2) and 3.9 x 10(-2), respectively. Pesticides applied to potato cropland and fruit trees contributed most to the overall toxic pressure... - Time horizon dependent characterization factors for acidification in life-cycle assessment based on forest plant species occurrence in EuropeRosalie van Zelm
Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, P O Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Environ Sci Technol 41:922-7. 2007..4-2.0 times greater than those for NO(x). Aggregation of damage due to acidification with other impact categories on the European scale becomes feasible with the applied approach...