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Title

Decision support systems for risk-based management of contaminated sites / Antonio Marcomini, Glenn W. Suter II, Andrea Critto, editors.

Publication

New York : Springer, ©2009.

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Additional Authors

• Marcomini, Antonio.
• Suter, Glenn W., II
• Critto, Andrea.

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Springer eBooks

Description

xix, 435 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Decision Support Systems for Risk-Based Management of Contaminated Sites addresses decision making in environmental risk management for contaminated sites, focusing on the potential role of decision support systems in informing the management of chemical pollutants and their effects. Considering the environmental relevance and the financial impacts of contaminated sites all over the post-industrialized countries and the complexity of decision making in environmental risk management, decision support systems can be used by decision makers in order to have a more structured analysis of a problem at hand and define possible options of intervention to solve the problem. Accordingly, the book provides an analysis of the main steps and tools for the development of decision support systems, namely: environmental risk assessment, decision analysis, spatial analysis and geographic information system, indicators and endpoints. Sections are dedicated to the review of decision support systems for contaminated land management and for inland and coastal waters management. Both include discussions of management problem formulation and of the application of specific decision support systems. This book is a valuable support for environmental risk managers and for decision makers involved in a sustainable management of contaminated sites, including contaminated lands, river basins and coastal lagoons. Furthermore, it is a basic tool for the environmental scientists who gather data and perform assessments to support decisions, developers of decision support systems, students of environmental science and members of the public who wish to understand the assessment science that supports remedial decisions.

Alternative Title

Decision support systems for risk based management of contaminated sites

Subject

• Hazardous waste sites > Risk assessment
• Decision support systems
• Environmental monitoring
• Environmental risk assessment
• Abfallpolitik
• Risikomanagement
• Entscheidungsunterstützungssystem
• Umweltgefährdung
• Environnement > Évaluation du risque
• Systèmes d'aide à la décision
• Dépôts de déchets dangereux > Europe
• Dépôts de déchets dangereux > États-Unis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Basic steps for the development of decision support systems / Paul Black and Tom Stockton -- Environmental risk assessment / Andrea Critto and Glenn W. Suter II -- Decision support systems and environment : role of MCDA / Silvio Giove [and others] -- Spatial analytical techniques for risk based decision support systems / Mark S. Johnson [and others] -- Indicators and endpoints for risk-based decision processes with decision support systems / Paola Agostini [and others] -- Contaminated land : a multi-dimensional problem / Claudio Carlon, Bruce Hope, and Francesca Quercia -- Decision support systems for contaminated land management : a review / Paola Agostini [and others] -- A spatial decision support system for the risk-based management of contaminated sites : the DESYRE DSS / Lisa Pizzol, Andrea Critto and Antonio Marcomini -- SMARTe : an MCDA approach to revitalize communities and restore the environment / Ann Vega [and others] -- DSS-ERAMANIA : decision support system for site-specific ecological risk assessment of contaminated sites / Elena Semenzin [and others] -- SADA : ecological risk based decision support system for selective remediation / S. Thomas Purucker, Robert N. Stewart and Chris J.E. Welsh -- Decision evaluation for complex risk network systems (DECERNS) software tool / Terry Sullivan [and others] -- Decision support system (DSSs) for contaminated land management : gaps and challenges / Paola Agostini and Ann Vega -- Use of decision support systems to address contaminated coastal sediments : experience in the United States / Charles A. Menzie -- Review of decision support systems devoted to the management of inland and coastal waters in the European Union / Paola Agostini [and others] -- MODELKEY : a decision support system for the assessment and evaluation of impacts on aquatic ecosystems / Stefania Gottardo [and others] -- CADDIS : the causal analysis/diagnosis decision information system / Susan B. Norton [and others] -- BASINS : better assessment science integrating point and nonpoint sources / Russell S. Kinerson, John L. Kittle, and Paul B. Duda -- A decision support system for the management of the Sacca di Goro (Italy) / Chiara Mocenni [and others] -- Decision support systems (DSSs) for inland and coastal waters management : gaps and challenges / Elena Semenzin and Glenn W. Suter II.

ISBN

• 9780387097213
• 038709721X
• 144193524X
• 9781441935243
• 9780387097220 (canceled/invalid)
• 0387097228 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2008931334
• 10.1007/978-0-387-09722-0.

OCLC

• ocn301796146
• 301796146
• SCSB-9245975

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library