A Quantitative Approach for Ranking Human Health Risks from Pesticides in Irish Groundwater

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1156-1185

  Labite, H ^a   Cummins, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

groundwater contamination; Irish agriculture; MCPA; Monte Carlo simulation; pesticide; risk ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869165126     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2012.722797     Document Type: Article

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