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.
Based on the "go to" book in the field of ecological risk assessment, this shorter, principles-based, updated textbook is essential for students and 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. Drawing upon the authors extensive experience in the field, first as a senior research staff member in the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge Laboratory and then as science advisor in the United States Environmental Protection Agencys National Center for Environmental Assessment, the book explains fundamental principles and basic techniques and illustrates them with example applications which carry through multiple chapters and make this book a practical and hands-on guide. Both the content and the style are inviting and approachable to different levels of students.
Features
- Integrates human health and ecological assessments.
- Includes epidemiological, risk, causal, impact, and outcome assessments.
- Focuses on fundamental principles that are applicable in all nations and legal contexts.
- Employs an engaging style and draws on the authors practical experience.
- Explains fundamental concepts in short chapters, making it perfect for beginners in the field.
- Explains the challenges and rewards of a career in environmental assessment.
This book is a practical guide for senior and graduate students in environmental sciences and management, as well as new practitioners of assessment who want to understand the purposes of environmental assessments and how to achieve them.
Recenzijos
The topics in Suter's book have been covered in other textbooks. But this book stands out and is distinguished from all others by a plainspoken writing style. Reading the book, you get the distinct impression that Suter is communicating directly with you. He is sharing advice drawn from his many years of experience assessing a wide range of environmental situations, some quite controversial to the present day. The book is an excellent teaching tool for students at university. And it's a useful and practical reference guide for earlyand midcareer environmental professionals who want to understand the challenges and purposes of environmental assessments and their application to environmental management and decisionmaking.
- Richard J. Wenning, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Vol 19, No 6, 2023: 16521658
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
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 Forums 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 Founders Award and the USEPAs 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.
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