Development and Deployment of a Framework to Prioritize Environmental Contamination Issues

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dc.citation.issue22
dc.citation.volume12
dc.contributor.authorKim ND
dc.contributor.authorTaylor MD
dc.contributor.authorCaldwell J
dc.contributor.authorRumsby A
dc.contributor.authorChampeau O
dc.contributor.authorTremblay LA
dc.date.available2020-11
dc.date.issued2020-11-11
dc.description.abstractManagement and regulatory agencies face a wide range of environmental issues globally. The challenge is to identify and select the issues to assist the allocation of research and policy resources to achieve maximum environmental gain. A framework was developed to prioritize environmental contamination issues in a sustainable management policy context using a nine-factor ranking model to rank the significance of diffuse sources of stressors. It focuses on contamination issues that involve large geographic scales (e.g., all pastoral soils), significant population exposures (e.g., urban air quality), and multiple outputs from same source on receiving environmental compartments comprising air, surface water, groundwater, and sediment. Factor scores are allocated using a scoring scale and weighted following defined rules. Results are ranked enabling the rational comparison of dissimilar and complex issues. Advantages of this model include flexibility, transparency, ability to prioritize new issues as they arise, and ability to identify which issues are comparatively trivial and which present a more serious challenge to sustainability policy goals. This model integrates well as a planning tool and has been used to inform regional policy development.
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dc.identifierARTN 9393
dc.identifier.citationSUSTAINABILITY, 2020, 12 (22)
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/su12229393
dc.identifier.eissn2071-1050
dc.identifier.elements-id435888
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.publisherMDPI (Basel, Switzerland)
dc.relation.isPartOfSUSTAINABILITY
dc.relation.urihttps://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/22/9393
dc.rights(The Authors) CC BY 4.0
dc.subjectdiffuse contamination
dc.subjectenvironmental management
dc.subjectpriority ranking
dc.subjectlocal government
dc.subjectair pollution
dc.subjectstormwater
dc.subjectanthropogenic stressors
dc.subjectagricultural runoff
dc.subjectNew Zealand
dc.subjectgeothermal
dc.subject.anzsrc12 Built Environment and Design
dc.titleDevelopment and Deployment of a Framework to Prioritize Environmental Contamination Issues
dc.typeJournal article
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