Environmental Goals Addressed in Assessments of Contaminated Sediments.

ABSTRACT: Environmental management often aims at sustainability and at implementing goals such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Several of these goals rely upon healthy sediments, implying that contaminated sediments need to be addressed in environmental management. In Sweden, the SDGs and national environmental objectives are meant to be central in environmental management. However, in environmental risk assessment (ERA) for contaminated sediments, it is not clear to assessors or authorities in Sweden which goals to consider and how. In the present study, we explore which environmental goals ERAs of contaminated sediment should consider, according to representatives from Swedish regulatory and advisory authorities, and to what extent ERAs consider those goals in practice

SUBMITTER: Bruce P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6973226 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature