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 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.
Semenzin
Elena
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Department of Environmental Sciences and Centre IDEAS, University Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy.
Critto
Andrea
A
Carlon
Claudio
C
Rutgers
Michiel
M
Marcomini
Antonio
A
D000818:Animals; D001682:Biological Availability; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D004463:Ecology; D006256:Hazardous Waste; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012989:Soil Pollutants / Q000378:metabolism
D006256:Hazardous Waste; D012989:Soil Pollutants