Tannenbaum Alternative Ecological Risk Assessment

An Innovative Approach to Understanding Ecological Assessments for Contaminated Sites
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-74362-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, E-Book

In Alternative Ecological Risk Assessment theauthor, Lawrence V. Tannenbaum, provides a critical review ofcurrent practices in the ecological risk assessment field andproposes alternatives that are supported by established science andkeen observation. It is hoped that this approach will pave the wayto a greater understanding of what appropriate and usefulecological assessment for contaminated sites should entail. Hedemonstrates that in most cases current practices do not providefor an assessment of ecological risk, and moreover, thatendeavoring to assess ecological risk is actually an unnecessaryundertaking at conventional hazardous waste sites. (Hestates, for example, that the concept of scale is often ignored bypractitioners, questions why animals like deer are routinelyassessed at 5-acre sites, and challenges the ecotoxicology datacurrently used.)
The book is aimed at students and professionals in the fields ofenvironmental science, ecology, ecotoxicology, and health riskassessment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tannenbaum, Lawrence V.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Lawrence Tannenbaum (United States Public HealthCommand, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA) is a certifiedsenior ecologist and a full-time health risk assessor working forthe U.S. Army, with a previous (Superfund Program) history at theU.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He is the inventor of apatented ecological assessment field-truthing method, and is anassociate editor of a Society of Environmental Toxicology andChemistry journal.