Course literature: Risk Assessment in Environment and Public Health (MVEN10) Autumn 2025

The list of course literature is valid from 2025-06-30.

Course convenor

Ullrika Sahlin
ullrika [dot] sahlin [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se

Mandatory literature

Books

Burgman, Mark. Risks and decisions for conservation and environmental management. Cambridge University Press, 2005. This book is available as an E-book. Search for it via Lund University library in LUB Search or try out this link to download the full book.

Scientific papers

O’Hagan, A. (2019). Expert Knowledge Elicitation: Subjective but Scientific. The American Statistician, 73(sup1), 69–81. https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2018.1518265

Connolly, A., Coggins, M. A., & Koch, H. M. (2020). Human biomonitoring of glyphosate exposures: state-of-the-art and future research challenges. Toxics, 8(3), 60.

Pietroiusti, A., Stockmann‐Juvala, H., Lucaroni, F., & Savolainen, K. (2018). Nanomaterial exposure, toxicity, and impact on human health. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology, 10(5), e1513.

Other

Chemical risk assessments in environmental medicine – a practical guide (pdf on canvas)

ECHA Guidance on Information Requirements and Chemical Safety Assessment https://echa.europa.eu/guidance-documents/guidance-on-information-requirements-and-chemical-safety-assessment

EMA Guideline on the environmental risk assessment of medicinal products for human use https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/environmental-risk-assessment-medicinal-products-human-use-scientific-guideline

ISPM Pest risk analysis for quarantine pests https://www.ippc.int/static/media/files/publication/en/2017/05/ISPM_11_2013_En_2017-05-25_PostCPM12_InkAm.pdf

IUCN Red list categories and criteria https://www.iucnredlist.org/resources/categories-and-criteria

US EPA explaining risk assessment https://www.epa.gov/risk.

EFSA Risk communication guidelines https://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/corporate_publications/files/riskcommguidelines170524.pdf.

Risk Glossary https://www.sra.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/SRA-Glossary-FINAL.pdf

Recommended literature

Other

Codex alimentarius https://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/en/

Environmental classification of pharmaceuticals at www.fass.se

IUCN. (2013). Documentation standards and consistency checks for IUCN red list assessments and species accounts. Version 2.

EFSA tutorial on uncertainty https://multimedia.efsa.europa.eu/uncertainty-tutorial/