STORMTOOLS: Coastal Environmental Risk Index (CERI)

Climate change and coastal environmental risk perceptions in Florida.

Understanding public perceptions of climate change risks is a prerequisite for effective climate communication and adaptation. Many studies of climate risk perceptions have either analyzed a general operationalization of climate change risk or employed a case-study approach of specific adaptive processes. This study takes a different approach, examining attitudes toward 17 specific, climate-rel...

Environmental risk assessment and communication in coastal aquaculture

Environmental Engineering for Coastal Protection

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. 1. Purpose. The purpose of this manual is to provide guidance in enviromental engineering for coastal shore protection projects. 2. Applicability. This manual applies to all field operating activities that have responsibility for environmental impact studies related to coastal shore protection projects. 3. Discussion. This manual summarize...

environmental risk assessment of registered insecticides in iran using environmental impact quotient (eiq) index

in the last decades, pesticides have been used extensively, in order to control pests and plant diseases, but negative impacts of pesticides caused several environmental problems and put human health in danger. in order to decrease environmental hazards of pesticide, risk of pesticide application should be measured briefly and precisely. in this study environmental impacts of registered insecti...

An Overview of Coastal Environmental Health Indicators

Discussions of the coastal environment and its health can be improved by more precise use of terms and clarification of the relationship, if any, between the health of ecosystems and the risks to human health. Ecosystem health is seldom defined and, in any case, has to be regarded in different terms than human health. Ecosystem health should embody both the structure and function of the ecosyst...