Ecological vulnerability in risk assessment - A review and perspectives

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 3871-3879

  De Lange, H J ^a   Sala, S ^b   Vighi, M ^b   Faber, J H ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ecological vulnerability assessment; Hazard; Hierarchical scale; Organization level; Resilience; Risk

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY OR; ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; ECOLOGICAL VULNERABILITY; ECOLOGICAL VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT; ECOSYSTEM LEVELS; EUROPEAN DIRECTIVE; EXPERT JUDGMENT; FIELD EFFECTS; SINGLE SPECIES; SITE-SPECIFIC; VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS;

RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOINDICATOR; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARCTIC WATER RESOURCE VULNERABILITY INDEX; ASSESSING STATUS OF COMMUNITIES AND HABITATS IN OSPAR REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOLOGICAL VULNERABILITY; ECOLOGICAL VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HABITAT; LANDSCAPE SPECIES; OIL VULNERABILITY INDEX; POLLUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; REGIONAL VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UTILITY INDEX AND VULNERABILITY INDEX; VULNERABILITY OF LANDSCAPES; VULNERABILITY OF MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; VULNERABILITY OF SOCIO ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77955051462     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.11.009     Document Type: Review

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