The Portland Harbor Superfund Site Sustainability Project: Introduction.
Published in Integrated environmental assessment and management
A Refined Ecological Risk Assessment for California Red-legged Frog, Delta Smelt and California Tiger Salamander Exposed...
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The California red-legged frog (CRLF), delta smelt (DS), and the California tiger salamander (CTS) are three species listed under the United States Federal Endangered Species Act (ESA), all of which inhabit aquatic ecosystems in California. The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has conducted deterministic screening-level risk assessments f...
CERCLA-linked environmental impact and benefit analysis: Evaluating remedial alternatives for the Portland Harbor Superf...
Published in Integrated environmental assessment and management
This analysis focused on evaluating the environmental consequences of remediation, providing indicators for the environmental quality pillar of 3 "pillars" of the Portland Harbor Sustainability Project (PHSP) framework (the other 2 pillars are economic viability and social equity). The project an environmental impact and benefit analysis (EIBA) and...
Stakeholder value-linked sustainability assessment: Evaluating remedial alternatives for the Portland Harbor Superfund S...
Published in Integrated environmental assessment and management
Regulatory decisions on remediation should consider affected communities' needs and values, and how these might be impacted by remedial options; this process requires that diverse stakeholders are able to engage in a transparent consideration of value trade-offs and of the distribution of risks and benefits associated with remedial actions and outc...
Sediment quality benchmarks for assessing oil-related impacts to the deep-sea benthos.
Published in Integrated environmental assessment and management
Paired sediment contaminant and benthic infaunal data from prior studies following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico were analyzed using logistic regression models (LRMs) to derive sediment quality benchmarks for assessing risks of oil-related impacts to the deep-sea benthos. Sediment total polycyclic aromatic hydroca...
Using adaptive processes and adverse outcome pathways to develop meaningful, robust, and actionable environmental monito...
Published in Integrated environmental assessment and management
The primary goals of environmental monitoring are to indicate whether unexpected changes related to development are occurring in the physical, chemical, and biological attributes of ecosystems and to inform meaningful management intervention. Although achieving these objectives is conceptually simple, varying scientific and social challenges often ...
Prioritization of pharmaceuticals based on risks to aquatic environments in Kazakhstan.
Published in Integrated environmental assessment and management
Over the last 20 years, there has been increasing interest in the occurrence, fate, effects, and risk of pharmaceuticals in the natural environment. However, we still have only limited or no data on ecotoxicological risks of many of the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) currently in use. This is partly due to the fact that the environmental ...
European Union regulators and industry agree on improving specific environmental release categories: Report from the exc...
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Specific environmental release categories (SPERCs) are an instrument for lower-tier environmental emissions assessments. They support chemical safety assessments under the European Union (EU) regulation Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals. SPERCs have been developed by industry and subjected to regulatory review. W...
Multi-criteria decision analysis applied to harmful algal bloom management: A case study.
Published in Integrated environmental assessment and management
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) have received greater attention in recent years due to an increase in the frequency of outbreaks and a growing potential for blooms to exact considerable economic losses and negatively impact ecosystem health. Human activity has been shown to intensify HAB outbreaks through increased eutrophication, elevated local air an...
New approach to weight-of-evidence assessment of ecotoxicological effects in regulatory decision-making.
Published in Integrated environmental assessment and management
Ecological risk assessments and risk management decisions are only as sound as the underlying information and processes to integrate them. It is important to develop transparent and reproducible procedures a priori to integrate often-heterogeneous evidence. Current weight-of-evidence (WoE) approaches for effects or hazard assessment tend to conflat...
