Section 1: Risk analysis Risk assessment for pharmaceutical products in the environment; Attending to risk in sequential sampling plans; Brownfield redevelopment, integrating sustainability and risk management; Risk in anthropic environments: methodologies for risk evaluation and exposition reduction; Biomonitoring in environmental medicine - results of LARS; Measures of network vulnerability indicators for risk evaluation and exposure reduction; Methemoglobin and hemolytic anemia as potential markers for drug side-effects; Quantitative microbial risk assessment modelling for the use of reclaimed water in irrigated horticulture; Chemical and ecotoxicological analyses to assess the environmental risk of the Garigliano River (central Italy); The use of TPH analytical data to estimate human health risk: practical approaches; Advanced computer-multi-media technology and direct mental health delivery; Pollutant and noise impact on child morbidity; Some nanotechnology risks; Hazardous material transport accidents: analysis of the D.G.A.I.S. database; Radiological risks in the construction and operation of alpine tunnels Section 2: Air pollution Local and global impact considerations on the turbo gas combined cycle; Assessing vulnerability of low-income communities to indoor air pollution in South Africa: towards the development of a vulnerability index; Air pollution of PM10 with radionuclide Cs-137 in Kuwait City, Kuwait; Environmental health risk by sly pollution: applied research on radon inside public buildings; Dioxin emission estimates and reduction options for Central and Eastern Europe; Atmospheric pollution and human health: the significance of a datable sedimentary archive from a small urban lake in Merseyside, UK; Contamination by particulated material in blasts: analysis, application and adaptation of the existent calculation formulas and software; Population exposure to urban highway traffic emissions; Purification characteristics of golden pothos for emitting air-pollutants from plywood using a gas sensor; Ventilation improvement in fire smoke control Section 3: Food contamination Mercury in Amazonian fish from Madeira River basin, Rondonia State, Brazil; Human exposure of methyl mercury through fish consumption: a Lake Ontario case study Section 4: Occupational health Microbiological risk in operating rooms: new strategies for infections surveillance; Vibration evaluation from the effects of whole-body vibration; Occupational health impacts on the child waste-pickers of Dhaka City; Vibration exposure of workers: considerations on some technical and interpretative aspects of the EC standards recently issued; Measurement of hand-vibration transmissibility by non-contact measurement techniques; Air pollution control for occupational health improvement; Health and safety in the workplace: prevention of hazards to reproductive health Section 5: Water quality issues Validity of coliphages as indicators of viral pollution of water in the Aral Sea area, Uzbekistan; Solving simultaneous risk equations: waste water recycling and fresh water sustainability in an arid continent; The role of urban lake sediments as historical archives of industrial pollution and health linkages: an example from Daresbury pond, north Cheshire, UK; Residual radioactivity from the treatment of water for urban domestic applications Section 6: Electromagnetic fields UMTS network planning using genetic algorithms; Long-term and low-thermal biological effects of microwaves Section 7: Housing and health The built environment in poor urban communities on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon; Development of a comprehensive indoor environment indicator for green building labelling in Taiwan Section 8: Remediation Biodegradation of carbaryl and phthalate isomers by soil microorganisms; Environmental pollutants and human diseases: diagnosis and treatment; Engineering Pseudomonas putida to minimize clogging during biostimulation; Environment management and health risks of soil erosion gullies in Sao Luis (Brazil) and their potential remediation using palm-leaf geotextiles Section 9: Social and economic issues Accessibility and urban environment sustainability in Sydney (1991-2001); Impact assessment and public outreach strategies of local governments; Application of the ISHTAR Suite for the assessment of the health effects of Rome environmental policy
