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Environmental Health and Ecotoxicology: An Indispensable Link

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Evaluating and Monitoring the Health of Large-Scale Ecosystems

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Well-being and increased life expectancy are to a great extent due to the progress of science and the modern technologies, in particular chemistry. At the same time, this progress is responsible for a number of new health problems, not only among workers in industry but also, and more seriously, in the population at large.

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  1. University of Évora, 7000, Évora, Portugal

    José Jerónimo Amaral-Mendes

  2. Institute of Pathological Anatomy, Unversity of Coimbra, 3000, Coimbra, Portugal

    José Jerónimo Amaral-Mendes

  3. National Institute of Health, 1600, Lisboa, Portugal

    José Jerónimo Amaral-Mendes

  4. Oncology Dept., Höpital de Joliment, 1700, La Louvière, Belgium

    Eric Pluygers (Honorary Head)

  5. Department of Pathological Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University, Pl. Cristo Rey, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Juliana Fariña

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  1. Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Blackwood Hall, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada

    David J. Rapport

  2. Soil and Sediment Quality Section, Environment Canada, Hull, Quebec, K1A 0H3, Canada

    Connie L. Gaudet (Ecosystem Conservation Directorate) (Ecosystem Conservation Directorate)

  3. Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, P. O. Box 601, Sheffield, S10 2UQ, UK

    Peter Calow

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Amaral-Mendes, J.J., Pluygers, E., Fariña, J. (1995). Environmental Health and Ecotoxicology: An Indispensable Link. In: Rapport, D.J., Gaudet, C.L., Calow, P. (eds) Evaluating and Monitoring the Health of Large-Scale Ecosystems. NATO ASI Series, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79464-3_5

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