Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4433297 | Science of The Total Environment | 2007 | 18 Pages |
Abstract
A two modules Decision Support System (DSS-ERAMANIA) was developed in order to support the site-specific Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) for contaminated sites. Within the first module, the TRIAD and the Weight of Evidence approaches were used to develop a site-specific Ecological Risk Assessment framework including three tires of investigation. Selected ecological observations and ecotoxicological tests were compared according to Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods and expert judgment, and the obtained ranking was used to identify a suitable set of tests, at each investigation tier, to be applied to the examined case study. A simplified application of the proposed methodology, implemented in the Module 1 of the DSS-ERA-MANIA, is described and discussed.
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Authors
Andrea Critto, Silvia Torresan, Elena Semenzin, Silvio Giove, Miranda Mesman, A.J. Schouten, M. Rutgers, Antonio Marcomini,