Development of a site-specific Ecological Risk Assessment for contaminated sites: Part II. A multi-criteria based system for the selection of bioavailability assessment tools

A comparison procedure based on Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and expert judgment was developed in order to allow the comparison of bioavailability tests to implement the chemical Line of Evidence (LoE) within a TRIAD based site-specific Ecological Risk Assessment framework including three...

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Published in:The Science of the total environment 2007-06, Vol.379 (1), p.34-45
Main Authors: Semenzin, Elena, Critto, Andrea, Carlon, Claudio, Rutgers, Michiel, Marcomini, Antonio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal, plant and microbial ecology
Animals
Applied ecology
Bioavailability
Biological and medical sciences
Biological Availability
Contaminated sites
Decision Support System
Decision Support Techniques
Ecology
Ecotoxicology, biological effects of pollution
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
General aspects
Hazardous Waste
Risk Assessment
Site-specific Ecological Risk Assessment
Soil Pollutants - metabolism
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Summary:A comparison procedure based on Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and expert judgment was developed in order to allow the comparison of bioavailability tests to implement the chemical Line of Evidence (LoE) within a TRIAD based site-specific Ecological Risk Assessment framework including three tires of investigation. The proposed methodology was included in the Module 1 of the Decision Support System DSS-ERAMANIA and the obtained rank supported the selection of a suitable set of available tests to be applied to the case study. A simplified application of the proposed procedure is described and results obtained by the system software are discussed.
ISSN:0048-9697
1879-1026
DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.02.034