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Series: EU Risk Assessment Guidelines

Part I: Quality criteria for environmental risk assessment software using the example of EUSES Part II: Visualisation of the complexity of EUSES

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    Stefan Schwartz, Volker Berding, Stefan Trapp & Michael Matthies

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Schwartz, S., Berding, V., Trapp, S. et al. Series: EU Risk Assessment Guidelines. Environ. Sci. & Pollut. Res. 5, 217–222 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02986404

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