The cost of risk assessment: Environmental restoration considerations for evaluating international transboundary contamination

Conference · Sun Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:197559

Himmelbauer, L ^[1]

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1. Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Juneau, AK (United States)

Impacts from transboundary contamination are evident in Alaska. This poses unique considerations for environmental restoration and remediation at contaminated sites located on the Aleutian Islands and in the interior. Ecological risk will be presented in terms of specific site impacts as well as additive impacts from transboundary contamination. The limitations of current environmental transport and fate models for large scale air and water areas have necessitated the creation of alternative restoration, treatment, and remediation techniques at these sites. A proposed environmental restoration and remediation selection criteria will be presented integrating cost-risk-benefit analysis and transboundary contamination. When sources of environmental risk are uncertain, decision making must center on the balance of the costs of risk research, costs of risk control, and the uncertain benefits of possible risk reductions resulting from control. The cost-risk-benefit analysis framework is considered at several Alaskan sites.

• OSTI ID: 197559
• Report Number(s): CONF-9511137--; ISBN 1-880611-03-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ALASKA
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT
POLLUTANTS
REMEDIAL ACTION
RISK ASSESSMENT
TRANSFRONTIER POLLUTION