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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Powers, Christina M
• Dana, Genya
• Gillespie, Patricia
• Gwinn, Maureen R
• Hendren, Christine Ogilvie
• Long, Thomas C
• Wang, Amy
• Davis, J. Michael

Titel

Comprehensive Environmental Assessment: A Meta-Assessment Approach

Ist Teil von

• Environmental science & technology, 2012-09, Vol.46 (17), p.9202-9208

Ort / Verlag

Washington, DC: American Chemical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.