Coastal and Estuarine Risk Assessment

Jr., Morris H. Roberts, Robert C. Hale, Morris H. Roberts, Jr.

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2001
• eBook ISBN: 9781040206812
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Biological Sciences

Written by experts in the field, Coastal and Estuarine Risk Assessment explores the science of exposure, effect, and risk. This is the first book to address the application of the current risk assessment paradigm from the National Research Council to coastal and estuarine environments. It provides the necessary applications for modifying the paradigm and shows how to use it to perform an effective assessment. Topics include: fate and bioavailability of organic compounds, emerging contaminants, effects of populations, effects to marine mammals, risk from multiple stressors, European approaches to risk assessment, effects of land use, and more.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Environmental and Ecological Risk Assessment Series
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• About the Editor
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Table of Contents
• 1 Overview of Ecological Risk Assessment in Coastal and Estuarine Environments
• 2 European Approaches to Coastal and Estuarine Risk Assessment
• 3 Emerging Contaminants of Concern in Coastal and Estuarine Environments
• 4 Enhancing Belief during Causality Assessments: Cognitive Idols or Bayes’s Theorem?
• 5 Bioavailability,
• 6 The Bioaccumulation of Mercury, Methylmercury, and Other Toxic Elements into Pelagic and Benthic Organisms
• 7 Dietary Metals Exposure and Toxicity to Aquatic Organisms: Implications for Ecological Risk Assessment
• 8 Endocrine Disruption in Fishes and Invertebrates: Issues for Saltwater Ecological Risk Assessment
• 9 The Use of Toxicity Reference Values (TRVs) to Assess the Risks That Persistent Organochlorines Pose to Marine Mammals
• 10 Effects of Chronic Stress on Wildlife Populations: A Population Modeling Approach and Case Study
• 11 Structuring PopulationBased Ecological Risk Assessments in a Dynamic Landscape
• 12 Incremental Chemical Risks and Damages in Urban Estuaries: Spatial and Historical Ecosystem Analysis
• 13 Ecological Risk Assessment in Coastal and Estuarine Environments
• Index