Environmental challenges in Central and Eastern Europe
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Bernhard Hennig
This special issue of Reviews on Environmental Health consolidates research articles and reviews that not only focus primarily on environmental challenges in Central and Eastern Europe but also draw connections to environmental health challenges that are common across many international regions. The articles in this special issue exemplify scientific interactions between researchers from the United States and Central and Eastern Europe who have collaborated to tackle mutual environmental health issues using shared expertise. The historical perspectives of this international effort to collectively explore and combine knowledge related to novel remediation technologies and emerging environmental health exposure science is highlighted in the first article by William A. Suk, where practical approaches for reducing exposures and disease outcomes in Central and Eastern Europe are discussed. Subsequent articles and reviews are authored by scientists, engineers, and members from regulatory organizations to provide in depth research data about the challenges of persistent environmental pollution in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as data discussing promising areas for prevention and intervention in these regions. Beyond articles that are specific to the Central and Eastern European region, authors have also prepared articles that discuss emerging topics that are relevant for the entire international community. Areas of emphasis of articles in this special issue include (a) multiple environmental stressors and health status as a variant of disease, with a focus on persistent organic pollutants, metals, mixtures, and new and emerging pollutants, as well as engineered and combustion generated nanoparticles; (b) sustainable exposure prevention through innovative detection and remediation technologies; (c) understanding of population health effects of exposure science, including preventing environmental disease through multilevel interventions; and (d) articles on policies associated with public and global health perspectives, considering environmental pollution a complex and global issue. In summary, the peer-reviewed articles in this special issue span across population health effects, including insights into the exposome and epigenetic effects; environmental disease prevention strategies, including lifestyle factors; and novel environmental remediation technologies and risk assessment, policy implications, and next-generation scientific leadership.
The special issue was critically peer-reviewed, and a special committee of Associate Guest Editors was appointed to delegate and assist with the review process. I wish to give special thanks to (in alphabetical order) Drs. Lisbeth Knudsen, Slawo Lomnicki, Tomas Macek, Kelly Pennell, Michael Petriello, Larry Robertson, and Jan Topinka for all their help to make the peer review process of this special issue a success.
Respectfully submitted,
Bernhard Hennig
Guest Editor
©2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Environmental challenges in Central and Eastern Europe
- Mini Reviews
- The CEECHE: a practical approach for reducing exposures and disease outcomes in Central and Eastern Europe
- Perinatal health in the Danube region – new birth cohort justified
- Building multi-country collaboration on watershed management: lessons on linking environment and public health from the Western Balkans
- An open-sourced statistical application for identifying complex toxicological interactions of environmental pollutants
- Air exchange rates and alternative vapor entry pathways to inform vapor intrusion exposure risk assessments
- Review Articles
- Sustainable exposure prevention through innovative detection and remediation technologies from the NIEHS Superfund Research Program
- Future of environmental research in the age of epigenomics and exposomics
- Linking childhood allergic asthma phenotypes with endotype through integrated systems biology: current evidence and research needs
- Impact of nutrition on pollutant toxicity: an update with new insights into epigenetic regulation
- Environmental PAH exposure and male idiopathic infertility: a review on early life exposures and adult diagnosis
- The association of peripubertal serum concentrations of organochlorine chemicals and blood lead with growth and pubertal development in a longitudinal cohort of boys: a review of published results from the Russian Children’s Study
- Epigenomic reprogramming in inorganic arsenic-mediated gene expression patterns during carcinogenesis
- Emerging roles of xenobiotic detoxification enzymes in metabolic diseases
- Recent advances on iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles as sorbents of organic pollutants in water and wastewater treatment
- Review of heavy metal accumulation on aquatic environment in Northern East Mediterrenean Sea part I: some essential metals
- Original Articles
- Sensemaking, stakeholder discord, and long-term risk communication at a US Superfund site
- Valuing environmental health for informed policy-making
- How serious are health impacts in one of the most polluted regions of Central Europe?
- The results of interconnection of the evidence of professional exposure to genotoxic factors (regex) and cancer registry in the Czech Republic
- The impact of selected environmental, behavioral and psychosocial factors on schoolchildren’s somatic and mental health
- Markers of lipid oxidative damage among office workers exposed intermittently to air pollutants including nanoTiO2 particles
- Determinants of ETS exposure in a sample of Slovak pregnant women
- Respiratory toxicity of Fe3O4 nanoparticles: experimental study
- Exposure of children to phthalates and the impact of consumer practices in Slovakia
- Metal contamination in environmental media in residential areas around Romanian mining sites
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Environmental challenges in Central and Eastern Europe
- Mini Reviews
- The CEECHE: a practical approach for reducing exposures and disease outcomes in Central and Eastern Europe
- Perinatal health in the Danube region – new birth cohort justified
- Building multi-country collaboration on watershed management: lessons on linking environment and public health from the Western Balkans
- An open-sourced statistical application for identifying complex toxicological interactions of environmental pollutants
- Air exchange rates and alternative vapor entry pathways to inform vapor intrusion exposure risk assessments
- Review Articles
- Sustainable exposure prevention through innovative detection and remediation technologies from the NIEHS Superfund Research Program
- Future of environmental research in the age of epigenomics and exposomics
- Linking childhood allergic asthma phenotypes with endotype through integrated systems biology: current evidence and research needs
- Impact of nutrition on pollutant toxicity: an update with new insights into epigenetic regulation
- Environmental PAH exposure and male idiopathic infertility: a review on early life exposures and adult diagnosis
- The association of peripubertal serum concentrations of organochlorine chemicals and blood lead with growth and pubertal development in a longitudinal cohort of boys: a review of published results from the Russian Children’s Study
- Epigenomic reprogramming in inorganic arsenic-mediated gene expression patterns during carcinogenesis
- Emerging roles of xenobiotic detoxification enzymes in metabolic diseases
- Recent advances on iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles as sorbents of organic pollutants in water and wastewater treatment
- Review of heavy metal accumulation on aquatic environment in Northern East Mediterrenean Sea part I: some essential metals
- Original Articles
- Sensemaking, stakeholder discord, and long-term risk communication at a US Superfund site
- Valuing environmental health for informed policy-making
- How serious are health impacts in one of the most polluted regions of Central Europe?
- The results of interconnection of the evidence of professional exposure to genotoxic factors (regex) and cancer registry in the Czech Republic
- The impact of selected environmental, behavioral and psychosocial factors on schoolchildren’s somatic and mental health
- Markers of lipid oxidative damage among office workers exposed intermittently to air pollutants including nanoTiO2 particles
- Determinants of ETS exposure in a sample of Slovak pregnant women
- Respiratory toxicity of Fe3O4 nanoparticles: experimental study
- Exposure of children to phthalates and the impact of consumer practices in Slovakia
- Metal contamination in environmental media in residential areas around Romanian mining sites
