With the signing of the Stockholm convention on POPs and the development of global monitoring programs, there is an increased need for laboratories in developing countries to determine PCBs and OCPs.
This research is intended as a case study to help inform development of forest monitoring programs which apply National Forest Inventory NFII) data to estimation of AGB at sub-national or national scales.
Furthermore, comprehensive investigations on the occurrence, ecology, and epidemiology of the different WNV strains circulating in central Europe, as well as the development of monitoring and surveillance programs, must be of highest priority.
Human-mediated environmental changes have resulted in appropriate concern for the conservation of ecological systems and have led to the development of many ecological monitoring programs worldwide.
To support the development and implementation of biological monitoring programs, we need quantitative technologies for measuring xenobiotic exposure.
However, development of long-term detailed monitoring programs is required to further develop conceptual models of natural attenuation and increase our understanding of the behavior of contaminant mixtures in the subsurface.
Our results are, however, valuable for the development of a national monitoring program to detect autochthonous forest stands that are target areas for biodiversity conservation.
Results are used as a basis for discussing research and information needs underlying development of water quality criteria and monitoring programs for coastal wetlands of the Great Lakes.
Added values to the multidimensional approach are to pursue an explicit planning of the assessment exercise and to carried out the alongside the development of research programs, through monitoring and prospective data collection.
In 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the first global strategy to counter this phenomenon (3 ), a key component of which is the development of surveillance programs to monitor trends in antimicrobial drug resistance and use (3 ).
