PMID: 16637149Apr 28, 2006Paper

A critical assessment of the ecological risk assessment process: a review of misapplied concepts

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
Lawrence V Tannenbaum

Abstract

A frank assessment of present-day ecological risk assessments (ERA) for managed contaminated sites reveals that fundamental concepts regarding the receptors that are considered and the chemical exposures they experience are commonly misapplied. As a consequence, environmental managers are not being supplied with the information needed for proper decision making. The stepwise review of ecological risk issues provided here suggests that the ERA process needs I to be severely revamped. Further, what is likely hindering the development of a refined ecological assessment process that is better suited to environmental problem solving and land management is the unwillingness of stakeholders to agree that much of the current ERA practice and convention is flawed.

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Jul 7, 2007·Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology·Lawrence V TannenbaumKeith J Williams
Apr 26, 2008·Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology·Lawrence V TannenbaumKeith J Willams
Apr 23, 2013·Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology·Jo Ellen HinckDonald E Tillitt
Nov 10, 2015·Birth Defects Research. Part B, Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology·Lawrence V Tannenbaum, Jodi A Flaws
Aug 1, 2009·Journal of Environmental Radioactivity·F Brèchignac, Masahiro Doi
May 20, 2011·Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management·Mathijs G D SmitStåle Johnsen
Mar 27, 2012·Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry·Andrew K GordonNikite W J Muller
Sep 8, 2010·Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry·James HuntMichael St J Warne
Jun 16, 2014·Journal of Environmental Radioactivity·Clare BradshawFrançois Bréchignac
Apr 28, 2006·Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management·Lawrence V Tannenbaum
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