Decision Support Systems for Risk-Based Management of Contaminated Sites

Basic Steps for the Development of Decision Support Systems.- Environmental Risk Assessment.- Decision Support Systems and Environment: Role of MCDA.- Spatial Analytical Techniques for Risk Based Decision Support Systems.- Indicators and Endpoints for Risk-Based Decision Processes with Decision Support Systems.- Contaminated Land: A Multi-Dimensional Problem.- Decision Support Systems for Contaminated Land Management: A Review.- A Spatial Decision Support System for the Risk-Based Management of Contaminated Sites: The DESYRE DSS.- SMARTe: An MCDA Approach to Revitalize Communities and Restore the Environment.- DSS-ERAMANIA: Decision Support System for Site-Specific Ecological Risk Assessment of Contaminated Sites.- SADA: Ecological Risk Based Decision Support System for Selective Remediation.- Decision Evaluation for Complex Risk Network Systems (DECERNS) Software Tool.- Decision Support Systems (DSSs) for Contaminated Land Management #x2013; Gaps and Challenges.- Use of Decision Support Systems to Address Contaminated Coastal Sediments: Experience in the United States.- Review of Decision Support Systems Devoted to the Management of Inland and Coastal Waters in the European Union.- MODELKEY: A Decision Support System for the Assessment and Evaluation of Impacts on Aquatic Ecosystems.- CADDIS: The Causal Analysis/Diagnosis Decision Information System.- BASINS: Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources.- A Decision Support System for the Management of the Sacca di Goro (Italy).- Decision Support Systems (DSSs) for Inland and Coastal Waters Management #x2013; Gaps and Challenges.

Andrea Critto Lecturer in Environmental Risk Assessment and research associate at Department of Environmental Sciences; senior researcher at Interdepartmental Centre for the Dynamic Interactions between Economy, Environment and Society (IDEAS), the University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Italy.

His main research activity concerns Environmental Risk Assessment and Management associated with: a) development of Decision Support Systems for the integration of environmental, technological, economical and societal issues; b) formulation of Environmental Quality Standards and planning of environmental monitoring; c) selection/comparison of remedial technologies for contaminated sites.

Dr. Critto received his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences at the University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Italy, with specialization in Environmental Risk Assessment and GIS-based Decision Support Systems (DSS) for risk based environmental management.

Antonio Marcomini Professor of Environmental Chemistry at the University Ca' Foscari of Venice, he has been post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto (Canada) and research associate at the EAWAG-ETH Institute of Water Science and Technology , Duebendorf (Switzerland). He has written extensively on the environmental behaviour (i.e. identification and determination, degradation and bioaccumulation, fate and transport, etc.) of both naturally occurring and synthetic chemicals, on impact and human health/ecological risk assessment of chemical pollutants, on environmental sustainability of degraded land/ecosystems rehabilitation, and on tools (procedures, protocols, decision support systems) for environmental decision making. He is author/coauthor of approx. 160 publications appeared in peer reviewed international journals, as well as of book chapters. Coordinator/scientific responsible of several international and national projects, his current research work focuses on characterization and risk assessment of emerging pollutants, especially

From the reviews:

"This three-part work is a compilation of articles summarizing the state of the art of decision support systems (DSS) as they are used in the management of contaminated sites. ... Each chapter describes a specific tool, first outlining its structural elements, then providing an example case study. ... The overall breadth of the tools ... provides an excellent foundation in this emerging field. ... This volume will be of interest to community planners, agency personnel, and environmental/legal professionals. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate through professional collections." (B. Bero, Choice, Vol. 47 (2), October, 2009)