Toward sustainable environmental quality: Identifying priority research questions for Latin America.

ABSTRACT: The Global Horizon Scanning Project (GHSP) is an innovative initiative that aims to identify important global environmental quality research needs. Here we report 20 key research questions from Latin America (LA). Members of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) LA and other scientists from LA were asked to submit research questions that would represent priority needs to address in the region. One hundred questions were received, then partitioned among categories, examined, and some rearranged during a workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Twenty priority research questions were subsequently identified. These research questions included developing, improving, and harmonizing across LA countries methods for 1) identifying contaminants and degradation products in compl

SUBMITTER: Furley TH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5947661 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature