Contribution of ICTs to the Environmental and Human Risk

DUŠEK, Ladislav, Ivan HOLOUBEK, Jana KOPTÍKOVÁ, Jiří JARKOVSKÝ, Vratislav KUBÍK, Jaroslav RÁČEK and Jiří HŘEBÍČEK. Contribution of ICTs to the Environmental and Human Risk. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Summer School on Computational Biology. Brno: Masaryk University, 2006, p. 8-24. ISBN 80-7355-070-9.

Basic information

• Original name: Contribution of ICTs to the Environmental and Human Risk
• Name in Czech: Contribution of ICTs to the Environmental and Human Risk
• Authors: DUŠEK, Ladislav (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Ivan HOLOUBEK (203 Czech Republic), Jana KOPTÍKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Jiří JARKOVSKÝ (203 Czech Republic), Vratislav KUBÍK (203 Czech Republic), Jaroslav RÁČEK (203 Czech Republic) and Jiří HŘEBÍČEK (203 Czech Republic).
• Edition: Brno, Proceedings of the 2nd International Summer School on Computational Biology, p. 8-24, 17 pp. 2006.
• Publisher: Masaryk University

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Proceedings paper
• Field of Study: 30304 Public and environmental health
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14310/06:00018629
• Organization unit: Faculty of Science
• ISBN: 80-7355-070-9
• Keywords in English: environmental risk assessment; human risk assessment; environmental informatics
• Tags: environmental informatics, environmental risk assessment, human risk assessment
• Tags: Reviewed

Abstract

This paper is aimed to introduce the topic of human and environmental risk assessment from the viewpoint of information a communication technologies and to provide basic overview of consecutive methodical steps in this multitask process. Simplified definition of most important methodical components is explained with special focus on exposure assessment and the analyses of toxic biological effects. Data processing and optimized information management flow are indispensable parts of all the steps and bear responsibility not only for common outcomes like data summaries and risk characterization. Information and communication technologies take important role from the very beginning of the assessment process (experimental design, sampling plans, and scenarios) to the last point including an analysis of uncertainties. Information and communication technologies and data analyses form a base namely for the empirical phases of the process and determine the success of environmental monitoring, multivariate modelling and reliability of the estimates of final measures. In the case of biological effect evaluation, the attention is paid namely to the dose response modelling while environmental monitoring and exposure assessment work predominantly with multivariate factorial or discrimination models. Emvironmental risk assessment can theoretically employ any type of biological data from molecular markers to biodiversity indices and therefore, none method of data analysis can be excluded from the usable list. That is why we rather tried to provide general methodical scheme than detailed listing of all available analytical techniques.

Abstract (in Czech)

This paper is aimed to introduce the topic of human and environmental risk assessment from the viewpoint of information a communication technologies and to provide basic overview of consecutive methodical steps in this multitask process. Simplified definition of most important methodical components is explained with special focus on exposure assessment and the analyses of toxic biological effects. Data processing and optimized information management flow are indispensable parts of all the steps and bear responsibility not only for common outcomes like data summaries and risk characterization. Information and communication technologies take important role from the very beginning of the assessment process (experimental design, sampling plans, and scenarios) to the last point including an analysis of uncertainties. Information and communication technologies and data analyses form a base namely for the empirical phases of the process and determine the success of environmental monitoring, multivariate modelling and reliability of the estimates of final measures. In the case of biological effect evaluation, the attention is paid namely to the dose response modelling while environmental monitoring and exposure assessment work predominantly with multivariate factorial or discrimination models. Emvironmental risk assessment can theoretically employ any type of biological data from molecular markers to biodiversity indices and therefore, none method of data analysis can be excluded from the usable list. That is why we rather tried to provide general methodical scheme than detailed listing of all available analytical techniques.

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• MSM0021622412, plan (intention): Name: Interakce mezi chemickými látkami, prostředím a biologickými systémy a jejich důsledky na globální, regionální a lokální úrovni (INCHEMBIOL) (Acronym: INCHEMBIOL)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Interactions among the chemicals, environment and biological systems and their consequences on the global, regional and local scales (INCHEMBIOL)