Temizel-Sekeryan, Sila Wu, Fan Hicks, Andrea L
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Integrated environmental assessment and management
Recovering valuable nutrients (e.g., P and N) from waste materials has been extensively investigated at the laboratory scale. Although it has been shown that struvite precipitation from several manure sources contributes to nutrient management practices by recovering valuable nutrients and preventing them from reaching water bodies, it has not been...
Janssen, Sarah E Patnode, Kathleen A Pluta, Bruce R Krabbenhoft, David P
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Integrated environmental assessment and management
Mercury contamination in river systems due to historic and current Hg releases is a persistent concern for both wildlife and human health. In larger rivers, like the Ohio River, USA, it is difficult to directly link Hg discharges to bioaccumulation due to the existence of multiple industrial Hg sources as well as the varied dietary and migratory ha...
Canham, Rachel González-Prieto, Ana M Elliott, John E
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Integrated environmental assessment and management
Despite the risk of significant adverse toxicological effects of Hg to humans and wildlife, Hg use in anthropogenic activities, and artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in particular, is widespread throughout Latin America. However, there are few research and monitoring studies of Hg toxicity in fish and fish-eating wildlife in Latin America co...
Beaudrie, Christian Corbett, Charles J Lewandowski, Thomas A Malloy, Timothy Zhou, Xiaoying
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We compare how several forms of multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) can enhance the practice of alternatives assessment (AA). We report on a workshop in which 12 practitioners from US corporations, government agencies, NGOs, and consulting organizations applied different MCDA techniques to 3 AA case studies to understand how they improved the de...
Manzano, Carlos A Jácome, Manuel Syn, Thant Molina, Carolina Toro Araya, Richard Leiva-Guzmán, Manuel Andres
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Integrated environmental assessment and management
Air pollution problems can be large, complex, and ill-structured. They can vary from location to location and combine many complex components: urban expansion, increasing vehicles and industrial emissions, biomass burning, geographic and meteorological conditions, cultural aspects, and economic effects. However, the existing research, accumulated k...
Ul Haq, Shamsheer Boz, Ismet Shahbaz, Pomi
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The study focused on the sustainability of different land tenure farms in tea farming and explored the effect of structural and decisional variables on tea farm sustainability. For this, a total of 138 tea growers from the Rize province of Turkey were selected through stratified sampling approach and directly interviewed. The positive and negative ...
Carriger, John F Yee, Susan H Fisher, William S
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Coral reefs are highly valued ecosystems currently threatened by both local and global stressors. Given the importance of coral reef ecosystems, a Bayesian network approach can benefit an evaluation of threats to reef condition. To this end, we used data to evaluate the overlap between local stressors (overfishing and destructive fishing, watershed...
Leang, Amy L Meyer, Justin E Manahan, Craig C Delistraty, Damon A Rieck, Robert J Powell, Teague P Smith, Marissa N Perkins, Myles S
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Integrated environmental assessment and management
Despite ongoing controversy, several strategic frameworks for defining chemicals of concern (e.g., persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic [PBT]; persistent, mobile, toxic [PMT]; persistent organic pollutant [POP]) share persistence as a key criterion. Persistence should be considered over the entire chemical life cycle from production to disposal, incl...
Schabacker, Jens Hahne, Joerg Ludwigs, Jan-Dieter Vallon, Martin Foudoulakis, Manousos Murfitt, Roger Ristau, Kai
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The guidance document on risk assessment for birds and mammals (GD) provides generic residue values of pesticides on potential diet items for use in wildlife risk assessments. For most diet items, these values are based on a large number of residue studies. However, the default residues per unit dose (RUD; standardized for application of 1 kg subst...
Thorstensen, Helene Ruus, Anders Helberg, Morten Baek, Kine Enge, Ellen Katrin Borgå, Katrine
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Seabirds like gulls are common indicators in contaminant monitoring. The herring gull (Larus argentatus) is a generalist with a broad range of dietary sources, possibly introducing a weakness in its representativeness of aquatic contamination. To investigate the herring gull as an indicator of contamination in an urban-influenced fjord, the Norwegi...
