Sediment Quality Assessment and Management in Marine and Freshwater Environments. Current Approaches, Emerging Tools, and Future Directions

Table of Contents

Part 1: Current Approaches for the Derivation of SQGs
1. Assessing Sediment Quality in Marine and Freshwater Environments, Yesterday and Today
2. The Role of Ecotoxicological Testing in Sediment Quality Assessment in Europe Past, Presence, and Adaption to Future Challenges
3. Sediment Status in Europe: Frameworks, Standards and Approaches, Synthesis of Expanded Review
4. Assessment of Sediment Mobility, Transport, and Recovery Due to Physical Processes
5. Role of Sediment Risk Assessment in Evaluating Contaminated Sediments
6. Framework for Evaluating Human Health Consequences and Implications for Sediment Management

Part 2: New and Emerging Tools for Sediment Quality Assessment
7. Sediment Quality New Ecotoxicological Approaches to Assess and Understand Processes from Microbiome to Behaviour
8. Advances in the Use of Passive Sampling for Managing Contaminated Sediments
9. Novel Diagnostic Tools in Sediment Quality Assessment
10. An Improved Technical Framework for Initial Screening of Sediment Quality Using Sedimentary Metals
11. Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOP) in Sediment Quality Assessments
12. Sediment Quality Assessment in South African Subtropical Ecosystems
13. Sediment eDNA-Based Monitoring of Benthic Communities: Benefits and Challenges

Part 3: Managing Sediments in the 21st Century
14. Pragmatic Approaches to Causality-Based Refined Screening at Legacy Contaminated Sediment Sites
15. Integrating Effect-Based Methods and Nontarget Analysis to Sediment Pollution Diagnosis and Ecological Risk Assessment
16. Review and Lessons Learned from Laboratory and In Situ Sediment Testing and the Future of Sediment Bioassays
17. Sediment Quality and Other Challenges for Achieving Sustainable Use of Dredged Material
18. Bioavailability Consideration in Sediment Management and Remediation
19. Sediment Quality Assessment as a Tool to Support Marine Protected Areas Management
20. Managing Sediment Quality to Support Stakeholder Objectives and Sustain Ecosystem Services

Acronyms and Abbreviations
Index

Authors

Sabine E. Apitz SEA Environmental Decisions, Ltd, UK. Sabine E. Apitz is an oceanographer and environmental marine geochemist with 40 years of environmental experience in the academic, government, and business sectors. She specializes in developing various conceptual tools, including Ecosystem Services, Sustainability, and other ecosystems-based framings that link what we can measure as scientists to what we want to achieve in society to support environmental management, policy, and decision-making. With a BS in Chemistry (CSUF, 1983) and a PhD in Oceanography/Marine Geochemistry (UCSD/SIO, 1991), she worked for 10 years as a senior marine environmental scientist for the US Navy, advising and representing the US Government on dredged material assessment and management issues. For over 20 years, she was Director of SEA Environmental Decisions, a UK consultancy providing advice on ecosystems-based sediment, dredged material, catchment, and coastal environmental management and policy to international clients. She is the current Editor-In-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. Richard Wenning Wenning Environmental LLC, USA. Richard J. Wenning is an ecotoxicologist with 40 years of experience conducting environmental damage and risk assessments, evaluating ecosystem injuries, and restoring aquatic environments. He has been involved in the many facets of contaminated sediment management, including investigation, toxicity testing, remediation, beneficial reuse, and ecological recovery of freshwater and marine environments worldwide. Holding a BS in environmental science (DU, 1985) and an MS in ecotoxicology (Duke, 1987), he worked for three decades at two of the world's leading international environmental risk consultancies, ChemRisk and ENVIRON, assessing injuries to natural resources caused by chemical contamination, industrial accidents, resource development projects, and natural disasters. He is a Principal Scientist at Wenning Environmental LLC, where he continues to advise clients on environmental damage, impact, and risk analysis related to climate change, pollution, and natural resource injuries. He served 20 years as founding Editor-In-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management.