2006-2010: Functional Tools
for Pesticide Risk Assessment & Management in Europe (FOOTPRINT)
FOOTPRINT was a research
project in the 6th Framework Programme which developed a suite of three
pesticide risk prediction and management tools, for use by three
different end-user communities:
- farmers and extension
advisors at the farm scale;
- water managers at the
catchment scale; and
- policy makers/registration
authorities at the national/EU scale.
The
tools were based on state-of-the-art knowledge of processes, factors
and landscape attributes influencing pesticide fate in the environment
and integrate innovative components that allow users to:
- identify the dominant
contamination pathways and sources of pesticide contamination in the
landscape;
- estimate pesticide
concentrations in local groundwater resources and surface water
abstraction sources; and
- make
scientifically based assessments of how the implementation of
mitigation strategies will reduce pesticide contamination of adjacent
water resources.
The
three tools share the same overall philosophy and underlying science
and therefore provide a coherent and integrated solution to pesticide
risk assessment and risk reduction at the various scales. The tools
developed within FOOTPRINT allow stakeholders to make consistent and
robust assessments of risk of contamination to water bodies relevant to
management, mitigation and regulation (i.e. field/farm, catchment and
national/EU). In particular, they allow pesticide users to assess
whether their pesticide practices ensure the protection of local water
bodies and provide site-specific mitigation recommendations. The
FOOTPRINT tools are expected to make a direct contribution to the
revision of the Council Directive 91/414/EEC, the implementation of the
Water Framework Directive and the future Thematic Strategy on the
Sustainable Use of Pesticides.
Publications
- Dubus, I., Azimonti, G.,
Bach, M., Barriuso,
E., Bidoglio, G., Bouraoui, F., Centofanti, T., Coquet, Y., Feisel, B.,
Fialkiewicz, W., Fowler, H., Galimberti, F., Grizzetti, B., Højberg,
A., Hollis, J., Jarvis, N., Kajewski, I., Kjær, J., Krasnicki, S.,
Lewis, K., Lobnik, F., Lolos, P., Moeys, J., Nolan, T., Rasmussen, P.,
Réal, B., Reichenberger, S., Šinkovec, M., Stenemo, F., Suhadolic, M.,
Surdyk, N., Tzilivakis, J., Vaudour, T., Avoulidou-Theodorou, E.,
Windhorst, E. & Wurm, D. (2009). The FOOTPRINT Software Tools:
Pesticide Risk Assessment and Management in the EU at different spatial
scales. Presented at CEMEPE & SECOTOX June 2009, Mykonos,
Greece.
- Lewis, K.A. (2009). FOOTPRINT
Pesticide Properties Database: why and how it was developed and its
future role in environmental risk assessments. Invited paper
presented at 238th American Chemical Society National Meeting,
Washington DC, August 16-20th 2009.
- Tzilivakis, J., Green, A.
& Lewis, K.A. (2009). The FOOT-FS software system: An overview.
Presented at the FOOTPRINT Final Conference, Giessen, Germany, 18-19
March 2009.
- Green, A., Lewis, K.A.
& Tzilivakis, J. (2009). Pesticide Properties Database: An
overview. Presented at the FOOTPRINT Final Conference, Giessen,
Germany, 18-19 March 2009.
- Lewis, K.A., Green, A.
& Tzilivakis, J. (2009). Pesticide Properties Database: Usage
and Uptake. Presented at the FOOTPRINT Final Conference, Giessen,
Germany, 18-19 March 2009.
- Lewis, K.A., Green, A.
& Tzilivakis, J. (2009). The Pesticide Properties DataBase:
Beyond FOOTPRINT. Presented at the FOOTPRINT Final Conference,
Giessen, Germany, 18-19 March 2009.
- Lewis, K., Green A. &
Tzilivakis J. (2007). A Pesticide database holding fate and
ecological values. Report DL24 of the FP6 EU-funded FOOTPRINT
project, 28p.
- Tzilivakis, J. &
Lewis, K.A. (2007). The Beta version of FOOT-FS. Report DL26 of
the FP6 EU-funded FOOTPRINT project, 28p.
- Green, A., Lewis, K.A.,
Tzilivakis, J. Dubus, I.G. & Coles, A. (2007). FOOTPRINT -
Creating tools for Pesticide Risk Assessment and Management in Europe.
Poster presented at Voluntary Initiative Meeting, SCI York.
- Dubus, I., Azimonti, G.,
Bach, M., Barriuso,
E., Bidoglio, G., Bouraoui, F., Fialkiewicz, W., Fowler, H., François,
O., Højberg, A., Hollis, J., Jarvis, N., Kajewski, I., Kjær, J., Lewis,
K., Lobnik, F., Lolos, P., Réal, B., Reichenberger, S., Stenemo, F.,
Suhadolc, M. & Vavoulidou-Theodorou. E. (2006). Developing
functional tools for pesticide risk assessment and management at
various scales in Europe: the EU project FOOTPRINT. SCI Conference.
Pesticide Behaviour in Soils, Water and Air. Warwick.
Contact
Prof. Kathy Lewis
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