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  • Towards Sustainable Environmental Quality: Priority Research Questions for the Australasian Region of Oceania

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    Author(s)
    Gaw, Sally
    Harford, Andrew
    Pettigrove, Vincent
    Sevicke-Jones, Graham
    Manning, Therese
    Ataria, James
    Cresswell, Tom
    Dafforn, Katherine A
    Leusch, Frederic DL
    Moggridge, Bradley
    Cameron, Marcus
    Chapman, John
    Coates, Gary
    Colville, Anne
    Death, Claire
    Hageman, Kimberly
    Hassell, Kathryn
    Hoak, Molly
    Gadd, Jennifer
    Jolley, Dianne F
    Karami, Ali
    Kotzakoulakis, Konstantinos
    Lim, Richard
    McRae, Nicole
    Metzeling, Leon
    Mooney, Thomas
    Myers, Jackie
    Pearson, Andrew
    Saaristo, Minna
    Sharley, Dave
    Stuthe, Julia
    Sutherland, Oliver
    Thomas, Oliver
    Tremblay, Louis
    Wood, Waitangi
    Boxall, Alistair BA
    Rudd, Murray A
    Brooks, Bryan W
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Leusch, Frederic
    Year published
    2019
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    Abstract
    Environmental challenges persist across the world, including the Australasian region of Oceania, where biodiversity hotspots and unique ecosystems such as the Great Barrier Reef are common. These systems are routinely affected by multiple stressors from anthropogenic activities, and increasingly influenced by global megatrends (e.g., the food–energy–water nexus, demographic transitions to cities) and climate change. Here we report priority research questions from the Global Horizon Scanning Project, which aimed to identify, prioritize, and advance environmental quality research needs from an Australasian perspective, within ...
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    Environmental challenges persist across the world, including the Australasian region of Oceania, where biodiversity hotspots and unique ecosystems such as the Great Barrier Reef are common. These systems are routinely affected by multiple stressors from anthropogenic activities, and increasingly influenced by global megatrends (e.g., the food–energy–water nexus, demographic transitions to cities) and climate change. Here we report priority research questions from the Global Horizon Scanning Project, which aimed to identify, prioritize, and advance environmental quality research needs from an Australasian perspective, within a global context. We employed a transparent and inclusive process of soliciting key questions from Australasian members of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Following submission of 78 questions, 20 priority research questions were identified during an expert workshop in Nelson, New Zealand. These research questions covered a range of issues of global relevance, including research needed to more closely integrate ecotoxicology and ecology for the protection of ecosystems, increase flexibility for prioritizing chemical substances currently in commerce, understand the impacts of complex mixtures and multiple stressors, and define environmental quality and ecosystem integrity of temporary waters. Some questions have specific relevance to Australasia, particularly the uncertainties associated with using toxicity data from exotic species to protect unique indigenous species. Several related priority questions deal with the theme of how widely international ecotoxicological data and databases can be applied to regional ecosystems. Other timely questions, which focus on improving predictive chemistry and toxicology tools and techniques, will be important to answer several of the priority questions identified here. Another important question raised was how to protect local cultural and social values and maintain indigenous engagement during problem formulation and identification of ecosystem protection goals. Addressing these questions will be challenging, but doing so promises to advance environmental sustainability in Oceania and globally.
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    Journal Title
    Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
    Volume
    15
    Issue
    6
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4180
    Copyright Statement
    2019 The Authors. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry (SETAC). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Chemical sciences
    Environmental sciences
    Biological sciences
    Science & Technology
    Life Sciences & Biomedicine
    Toxicology
    Environmental Sciences & Ecology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/395468
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