Assessing and Managing Natural Resource Damages: Continuing Challenges and Opportunities
| Autor: | Ralph G. Stahl, Lawrence W. Barnthouse |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Conservation of Natural Resources
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences media_common.quotation_subject Forest management Ecological and Environmental Phenomena Context (language use) Scientific literature 010501 environmental sciences Risk Assessment 01 natural sciences Natural Resources Resource management Environmental planning 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Global and Planetary Change Ecology business.industry Environmental resource management Pollution Natural resource Service (economics) Government Regulation Damages Ecosystem management Business |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Management. 59:709-717 |
| ISSN: | 1432-1009 0364-152X |
| Popis: | In a 2002 paper, we discussed the technical challenges associated with quantifying natural resource injuries, service losses and damages, and suggested some actions that might help to overcome them. An important suggestion was to consider using some of the approaches in ecological risk assessment to help evaluate potential natural resource injuries, and ultimately in some cases to help translate those injuries into natural resource service loss. This was based on the observation that ecological risk assessment and natural resource damage assessments use much of the same types of data, but at that time the experience base with ecological risk assessment was greater than for natural resource damage assessments. We also discussed some of the issues in applying the then current Department of Interior natural resource damage assessments regulations. Since our 2002 publication the scientific literature, relevant regulations, the global context and more have changed. In the current paper we focus on the technical and regulatory changes in natural resource damage assessments practice since 2002, and use recent reports and publications to illustrate those changes and identify new directions in natural resource damage assessments. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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