Martin Scheringer
Biographic Data
| ID | 6170373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Scheringer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Scheringer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHERINGER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | ETH Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0809-7826 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Confronting the interconnection of chemical pollution and climate change
A toxic relationship
BACKGROUND: Among the crises engulfing the world is the symbiotic rise of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and plastics. Together, this co-dependent duo generates substantial profits for agri-food and petrochemical industries at high costs for people and planet. Cheap, lightweight and highly functional, plastics have ideal properties that enable business models to create demand for low-cost, mass-produced and hyper-palatable UPFs among populations wo…
Toward an “IPCC for chemicals”
ISSN:0940-5550
Development of Policy Relevant Human Biomonitoring Indicators for Chemical Exposure in the European Population
The European Union's 7th Environmental Action Programme (EAP) aims to assess and minimize environmental health risks from the use of hazardous chemicals by 2020. From this angle, policy questions like whether an implemented policy to reduce chemical exposure has had an effect over time, whether the health of people in specific regions or subpopulations is at risk, or whether the body burden of chemical substances (the internal exposure) varies wi…
Weshalb ist die Beteiligung von Akteuren nicht konstitutiv für transdisziplinäre Forschung
Reaktion auf J. Mittelstraß in GAIA 27/2 (2018) und W. Krohn et al. in GAIA 26/4 (2017)
Food packaging and migration of food contact materials
In the early 1990s, several groups of scientists—including epidemiologists and pneumologists—began to publish a series of prospective studies reporting an increased incidence of cardiovascular diseases in people exposed to low levels of airborne particles.1 ,2 Before these publications, toxicological studies had primarily focused on pulmonary effects of particulates in laboratory animals—and the results from those studies indicated that air pollu…
Umweltchemikalien 50 Jahre nach Silent Spring
Rachel Carson, in Silent Spring, pointed out that modern pesticides caused serious toxic effects. Since 1962, the book has had a considerable impact, but in the same period of time, the production of organic chemicals has increased more than tenfold. Humans and wildlife are exposed to a wide range of chemicals including pesticides, but also industrial chemicals such as plastic softeners, flame retardants, impregnating agents, surfactants, coloran…
Umweltforschung in der Krise? Fazit und Ausblick
Die Umweltforschung hat zwar geholfen, kleinere Umweltprobleme unter Kontrolle zu bringen, doch viele große Umweltprobleme nehmen an Dringlichkeit zu. Verliert die Umweltforschung an praktischer Relevanz? Der GAIA -Schwerpunkt Umweltforschung ging von der Hypothese aus, dass die Umweltforschung in einer Krise steckt, da sie zu praktischen Problemlösungen immer weni ger beisteuert. In elf Aufsätzen wurde in den letzten zwei Jahren in GAIA die Frag…
Saguf
Einführung
Saguf
Von der Stockholm-Konvention zu einem Intergovernmental Panel on Chemical Pollution
Zum Dilemma bei der Beurteilung der Nachhaltigkeit von Produkten
R 134a has been proposed as a substitute for chlorofluorocarbons used as refrigerants. However, is R 134a a step towards sustainability or a "climate killer"? We analyse the stances Hoechst and Greenpeace took regarding this question during the 1990s and clarify the reasons for their divergent opinions. Both parties decided at their discretion when they assessed the environmental impacts of technical systems, when they evaluated the feasibility o…
Institutionelle Ansätze zur Förderung fächerübergreifender Umweltforschung
Partizipation in der transdisziplinären Forschung – Eine Positionierung und die Ankündigung des nächsten Sagufnet-Workshops
Wozu Umweltforschung? – Über das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Forschungstraditionen und umweltpolitischen Leitbildern Teil I
We investigate the kinds of questions asked by environmental scientists. To this end, we describe the orientation of scientific research by posing four questions: What is the lack of knowledge to be addressed by the research? What is the purpose of the results? What are the subjects the research is dealing with? What are the methods chosen for the investigation? We propose that problem-oriented environmental science should strive to find answers …
Wozu Umweltforschung? – Über das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Forschungstraditionen und umweltpolitischen Leitbildern Teil II
In the treatment of environmental problems, there is often a discrepancy between the needs of planners and decision makers and the results provided by scientific research. This discrepancy is related to the different aims, priorities, and codes of practice of scientists, on the one hand, and decision- and policy-makers, on the other hand. To explore how this discrepancy could be reduced to some extent, we first introduce the distinction between k…
Comparing the Environmental Performance of Fluorescent Whitening Agents with Peroxide Bleaching of Mechanical Pulp
The use of fluorescent whitening agents (FWAs) instead of oxidative bleaching agents such as peroxide is an alternative for the bleaching of mechanical pulp. By this approach, the chromophores of the wood components in the pulp are not destroyed chemically but the brightness of the pulp is achieved by increased re‐emission of blue light in the range of 400–500 nm. In this study, a typical FWA and peroxide bleaching chemicals are compared with res…
Wofür steht Transdisziplinarität? – Kritische Anmerkungen zur ,,Managementperspektive
Transdisziplinarität
“Transdisziplinarität” erlebt zur Zeit einen stürmischen Aufschwung, in keiner wissenschaftspolitischen Debatte darf sie fehlen. In diesem Wort finden die vielfältigsten Hoffnungen auf eine neue und “bessere” Wissenschaft Ausdruck: Transdisziplinäre Forschung, so bekommt man zu hören und zu lesen, sei integriert, übergreifend, ganzheitlich, handlungsorientiert, nutzungsbezogen, praxisnah und kommunikationsoffen, sie stimuliere Teamarbeit und über…
Food packaging and migration of food contact materials
In the early 1990s, several groups of scientists—including epidemiologists and pneumologists—began to publish a series of prospective studies reporting an increased incidence of cardiovascular diseases in people exposed to low levels of airborne particles.1 ,2 Before these publications, toxicological studies had primarily focused on pulmonary effects of particulates in laboratory animals—and the results from those studies indicated that air pollu…
Transdisziplinarität
“Transdisziplinarität” erlebt zur Zeit einen stürmischen Aufschwung, in keiner wissenschaftspolitischen Debatte darf sie fehlen. In diesem Wort finden die vielfältigsten Hoffnungen auf eine neue und “bessere” Wissenschaft Ausdruck: Transdisziplinäre Forschung, so bekommt man zu hören und zu lesen, sei integriert, übergreifend, ganzheitlich, handlungsorientiert, nutzungsbezogen, praxisnah und kommunikationsoffen, sie stimuliere Teamarbeit und über…
Comparing the Environmental Performance of Fluorescent Whitening Agents with Peroxide Bleaching of Mechanical Pulp
The use of fluorescent whitening agents (FWAs) instead of oxidative bleaching agents such as peroxide is an alternative for the bleaching of mechanical pulp. By this approach, the chromophores of the wood components in the pulp are not destroyed chemically but the brightness of the pulp is achieved by increased re‐emission of blue light in the range of 400–500 nm. In this study, a typical FWA and peroxide bleaching chemicals are compared with res…
Wofür steht Transdisziplinarität? – Kritische Anmerkungen zur ,,Managementperspektive
Partizipation in der transdisziplinären Forschung – Eine Positionierung und die Ankündigung des nächsten Sagufnet-Workshops
Wozu Umweltforschung? – Über das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Forschungstraditionen und umweltpolitischen Leitbildern Teil I
We investigate the kinds of questions asked by environmental scientists. To this end, we describe the orientation of scientific research by posing four questions: What is the lack of knowledge to be addressed by the research? What is the purpose of the results? What are the subjects the research is dealing with? What are the methods chosen for the investigation? We propose that problem-oriented environmental science should strive to find answers …
Wozu Umweltforschung? – Über das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Forschungstraditionen und umweltpolitischen Leitbildern Teil II
In the treatment of environmental problems, there is often a discrepancy between the needs of planners and decision makers and the results provided by scientific research. This discrepancy is related to the different aims, priorities, and codes of practice of scientists, on the one hand, and decision- and policy-makers, on the other hand. To explore how this discrepancy could be reduced to some extent, we first introduce the distinction between k…
Institutionelle Ansätze zur Förderung fächerübergreifender Umweltforschung
Zum Dilemma bei der Beurteilung der Nachhaltigkeit von Produkten
R 134a has been proposed as a substitute for chlorofluorocarbons used as refrigerants. However, is R 134a a step towards sustainability or a "climate killer"? We analyse the stances Hoechst and Greenpeace took regarding this question during the 1990s and clarify the reasons for their divergent opinions. Both parties decided at their discretion when they assessed the environmental impacts of technical systems, when they evaluated the feasibility o…
Von der Stockholm-Konvention zu einem Intergovernmental Panel on Chemical Pollution
Saguf
Einführung
Saguf
Umweltforschung in der Krise? Fazit und Ausblick
Die Umweltforschung hat zwar geholfen, kleinere Umweltprobleme unter Kontrolle zu bringen, doch viele große Umweltprobleme nehmen an Dringlichkeit zu. Verliert die Umweltforschung an praktischer Relevanz? Der GAIA -Schwerpunkt Umweltforschung ging von der Hypothese aus, dass die Umweltforschung in einer Krise steckt, da sie zu praktischen Problemlösungen immer weni ger beisteuert. In elf Aufsätzen wurde in den letzten zwei Jahren in GAIA die Frag…
Umweltchemikalien 50 Jahre nach Silent Spring
Rachel Carson, in Silent Spring, pointed out that modern pesticides caused serious toxic effects. Since 1962, the book has had a considerable impact, but in the same period of time, the production of organic chemicals has increased more than tenfold. Humans and wildlife are exposed to a wide range of chemicals including pesticides, but also industrial chemicals such as plastic softeners, flame retardants, impregnating agents, surfactants, coloran…
Food packaging and migration of food contact materials
In the early 1990s, several groups of scientists—including epidemiologists and pneumologists—began to publish a series of prospective studies reporting an increased incidence of cardiovascular diseases in people exposed to low levels of airborne particles.1 ,2 Before these publications, toxicological studies had primarily focused on pulmonary effects of particulates in laboratory animals—and the results from those studies indicated that air pollu…
Development of Policy Relevant Human Biomonitoring Indicators for Chemical Exposure in the European Population
The European Union's 7th Environmental Action Programme (EAP) aims to assess and minimize environmental health risks from the use of hazardous chemicals by 2020. From this angle, policy questions like whether an implemented policy to reduce chemical exposure has had an effect over time, whether the health of people in specific regions or subpopulations is at risk, or whether the body burden of chemical substances (the internal exposure) varies wi…
Weshalb ist die Beteiligung von Akteuren nicht konstitutiv für transdisziplinäre Forschung
Reaktion auf J. Mittelstraß in GAIA 27/2 (2018) und W. Krohn et al. in GAIA 26/4 (2017)
Toward an “IPCC for chemicals”
ISSN:0940-5550
A toxic relationship
BACKGROUND: Among the crises engulfing the world is the symbiotic rise of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and plastics. Together, this co-dependent duo generates substantial profits for agri-food and petrochemical industries at high costs for people and planet. Cheap, lightweight and highly functional, plastics have ideal properties that enable business models to create demand for low-cost, mass-produced and hyper-palatable UPFs among populations wo…
Confronting the interconnection of chemical pollution and climate change
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