Alternative Ecological Risk Assessment (eBook)

An Innovative Approach to Understanding Ecological Assessments for Contaminated Sites

Lawrence V. Tannenbaum (Autor)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
232 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-74356-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In Alternative Ecological Risk Assessment the
author, Lawrence V. Tannenbaum, provides a critical review of
current practices in the ecological risk assessment field and
proposes alternatives that are supported by established science and
keen observation. It is hoped that this approach will pave the way
to a greater understanding of what appropriate and useful
ecological assessment for contaminated sites should entail. He
demonstrates that in most cases current practices do not provide
for an assessment of ecological risk, and moreover, that
endeavoring to assess ecological risk is actually an unnecessary
undertaking at conventional hazardous waste sites. (He
states, for example, that the concept of scale is often ignored by
practitioners, questions why animals like deer are routinely
assessed at 5-acre sites, and challenges the ecotoxicology data
currently used.)

The book is aimed at students and professionals in the fields of
environmental science, ecology, ecotoxicology, and health risk
assessment.

Autor

Lawrence Tannenbaum (United States Public Health Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA) is a certified senior ecologist and a full-time health risk assessor working for the U.S. Army, with a previous (Superfund Program) history at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He is the inventor of a patented ecological assessment field-truthing method, and is an associate editor of a Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry journal.

Inhalt

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

1 An introduction and overview 1

2 Facing the music: understanding what ERA is . . . and is not 14

3 Alternative exposure assessment 28

4 Toxicology and toxicity assessment in ERA revisited 56

5 Risk characterization versus site ecological assessment: Old and new 99

6 Case study: Problem formulation versus making problems for yourself 113

7 Getting beyond ERA 137

8 A new ecological assessment paradigm for historically contaminated sites: Direct health status assessment 160

9 Is RSA the answer to ERA? 179

Index 201

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.9.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Ökotoxikologie, Umweltverschmutzung • Angewandte Ökologie • Angewandte Ökologie • Applied Ecology • Biowissenschaften • Ecotoxicology & Pollution Science • Environmental Science • Environmental Studies • Life Sciences • Ökotoxikologie, Umweltverschmutzung • Umweltforschung • Umweltwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-118-74356-3 / 1118743563
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-74356-0 / 9781118743560