Development and application of an innovative expert decision support system to manage sediments and to assess environmental risk in freshwater ecosystems

Environment International

Volumn 60, Issue , 2013, Pages 171-182

  Dagnino, Alessandro ^a   Bo, Tiziano ^a   Copetta, Andrea ^a   Fenoglio, Stefano ^a   Oliveri, Caterina ^a   Bencivenga, Mauro ^b   Felli, Angelo ^b   Viarengo, Aldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Environmental risk assessment; Freshwater ecosystem management; Genotoxicity biomarker; Triad approach

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMARKERS; CONTAMINATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ECOSYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SEDIMENTS; WATER;

DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK INDICES; EXPERT DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENTS; GENOTOXICITIES; TRIAD APPROACHES;

RIVER POLLUTION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

BIOMARKER; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GENOTOXICITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL VULNERABILITY ABILITY INDEX; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK INDEX; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENOTOXICITY; ITALY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT RISK INDEX; WATER CONTAMINATION;

BORMIDA RIVER; ITALY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; GENOTOXICITY BIOMARKER; TRIAD APPROACH;

BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; ITALY; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84884225249     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2013.08.011     Document Type: Article

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