Glenn W. Suter II

Fundamentals of Environmental Assessment (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This principles-based textbook is essential for different levels of students, as well as new practitioners who want to understand the purposes of environmental assessments and how to achieve them. It includes environmental risks to humans as well as nonhuman populations and ecosystems, and most types of environmental assessments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000882971
• Artikelnr.: 67842514

Autorenporträt

Glenn W. Suter II is a retired environmental assessor. During his 20 years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, he served as the Science Advisor to the Director of the National Center for Environmental Assessment in Cincinnati and as Chairman of the Risk Assessment Forum's Ecological Oversight Committee. Before that he worked for 23 years in the Environmental Sciences Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has authored more than 300 publications including four authored books and four edited books. Among his recognitions, he received the SETAC Founder's Award and the USEPA's Level One Scientific Achievement Award, and gold medal for exceptional service. He is a Fellow of the AAAS and SETAC. He has worked on the development of toxicity test protocols; environmental impact assessment for nuclear, geothermal and coal energy technologies; the National Acid Precipitation Assessment; recovery of an endangered species; and ecological risk assessments of contaminated sites and of the mining of copper and coal. He participated in the development of guidance for ecological risk assessment, causal assessment, weight of evidence, field-based water quality criteria, assessment endpoints, ecosystem services, integrated risk assessment, and other topics. After this book, he intends to continue to serve as reviews editor for IEAM and spend more time clearing invasive species and otherwise restoring his bit of mixed deciduous forest.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Types and Components of Environmental Assessments 1. Types of
Environmental Assessment 2. The Cast of Characters 3. Frameworks for
Environmental Assessment 4. Planning and Problem Formulation 5. Analysis 6.
Analysis of Exposure 7. Analysis of Effects 8. Characterization 9.
Communication 10. Pollution Control and Risk Management Part II: Concepts
of Environmental Assessment 11. Causation 12. Hazard 13. Integration of
Human Health and Ecological Assessments 14. Goals and Endpoints 15.
Precaution and Protection 16. Levels of Organization 17. Uncertainty,
Variability and Confidence 18. Probalistic Assessment 19. Complexity 20.
Bias, Error, Fraud, and Credibility Part III: Methods for Environmental
Assessment 21. Sources of Information 22. Benchmark Derivation 23. Network
Diagrams 24. Inference 25. A Weight of Evidence Process 26. Extrapolation
27. Species Sensitivity Distributions 28. Mixtures, Multiple Agents, and
Cumulative Effects 29. Background and Reference 30. Assessors in the Court
Room 31. The Future Part IV: Supporting Materials