TY - GEN
T1 - Decision Support System for the assessment and evaluation of ecological impacts on aquatic ecosystems
T2 - 3rd Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society: Summit on Environmental Modelling and Software, iEMSs 2006
AU - Agostini, Paola
AU - Semenzin, Elena
AU - Critto, Andrea
AU - Micheletti, Christian
AU - Nunes, Paulo
AU - Ghermandi, Andrea
AU - Gottardo, Stefania
AU - Giove, Silvio
AU - De Zwart, Dick
AU - Brack, Werner
AU - Marcomini, Antonio
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), establishing stringent quality objectives for European basins in the next years, prompts for the development of new tools to evaluate and improve the ecological status over European rivers. The present paper will provide an overview of the main activities carried out in the DECIS subproject within MODELKEY, an European research project, funded by the European Commission, aimed to contribute to the assessment, understanding and prediction of the impacts of environmental toxicants on biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems. The main aim of DECIS is to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) that includes all project deliverables (i.e. exposure and effect models; key toxicants identification tool), and integrates Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) with socio-economic valuations. In fact, DECIS specific objectives are: development of integrated risk indexes, ranking and prioritization of hot spots at basin scale, estimation of ecological risks at site-specific scale, definition of monitoring programs based on ERA results, performance of socio-economic analysis at the basin scale, technical development and application of the new DSS to three representative European case-studies (Schelde, Llobregat and Elbe). The framework of reference for the development of the DSS is presented taking primarly into consideration EU regulatory frameworks. Moreover, possible links with other existing models and DSSs for river basin management are discussed.
AB - The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), establishing stringent quality objectives for European basins in the next years, prompts for the development of new tools to evaluate and improve the ecological status over European rivers. The present paper will provide an overview of the main activities carried out in the DECIS subproject within MODELKEY, an European research project, funded by the European Commission, aimed to contribute to the assessment, understanding and prediction of the impacts of environmental toxicants on biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems. The main aim of DECIS is to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) that includes all project deliverables (i.e. exposure and effect models; key toxicants identification tool), and integrates Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) with socio-economic valuations. In fact, DECIS specific objectives are: development of integrated risk indexes, ranking and prioritization of hot spots at basin scale, estimation of ecological risks at site-specific scale, definition of monitoring programs based on ERA results, performance of socio-economic analysis at the basin scale, technical development and application of the new DSS to three representative European case-studies (Schelde, Llobregat and Elbe). The framework of reference for the development of the DSS is presented taking primarly into consideration EU regulatory frameworks. Moreover, possible links with other existing models and DSSs for river basin management are discussed.
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Decision support system
KW - River basin
KW - Water Framework Directive
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84858680128
SN - 1424308526
SN - 9781424308521
T3 - Proceedings of the iEMSs 3rd Biennial Meeting," Summit on Environmental Modelling and Software"
BT - Proceedings of the iEMSs 3rd Biennial Meeting,Summit on Environmental Modelling and Software
Y2 - 9 July 2006 through 13 July 2006
ER -
