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Comprehensive Environmental Assessment: A Meta-Assessment Approach
- Source :
- Environmental Science & Technology
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- American Chemical Society (ACS), 2012.
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Abstract
- With growing calls for changes in the field of risk assessment, improved systematic approaches for addressing environmental issues with greater transparency and stakeholder engagement are needed to ensure sustainable trade-offs. Here we describe the comprehensive environmental assessment (CEA) approach as a holistic way to manage complex information and to structure input from diverse stakeholder perspectives to support environmental decision-making for the near- and long-term. We further note how CEA builds upon and incorporates other available tools and approaches, describe its current application at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and point out how it could be extended in evaluating a major issue such as the sustainability of biofuels.
- Subjects :
- Feature
Computer science
Decision Making
Stakeholder engagement
Environmental Sustainability Index
Agency (sociology)
Humans
Environmental Chemistry
Environmental impact assessment
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental planning
Risk management
Risk Management
business.industry
Research
Stakeholder
General Chemistry
United States
Environmental Policy
Nanostructures
Risk analysis (engineering)
Biofuels
Transparency (graphic)
Sustainability
Environmental Pollutants
business
Environmental Monitoring
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15205851 and 0013936X
- Volume :
- 46
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental Science & Technology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7335ada084a2b2a17cff45d77a4ce552
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1021/es3023072