General Principles of Ecological Risk Assessment: Protecting Ecosystems in the Third Millennium

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Marco Vighi received his degree in biology at the University of Milano Italy and was a research assistant at the Water Research Institute of the Italian National Research Council. He was Professor of Agricultural Ecotoxicology at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Milano. He was also as Professor of Ecology Applied Ecology and Ecotoxicology at the University of Milano-Bicocca Italy where he led the Research Group on Ecotoxicology. He retired in November 2015. From December 2015 to July 2020 he was Principal Investigator of the Ecotoxicology Research Group at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies (IMDEA) Water Institute Spain of which he is still an external consultant. He is a member of the Scientific Committees on Toxicology and Ecotoxicology of the European Commission (now SCHEER) and a consultant for the United Nations Procurement Division United Nations Environment Programme and World Health Organization. In 2018 he won the Environmental Education Award from the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC). He is author of more than 200 scientific papers and books.