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Decision Support Systems (DSSs) For Contaminated Land Management - Gaps And Challenges
Citation:
Agostini, Paola AND A. M. VEGA. Decision Support Systems (DSSs) For Contaminated Land Management - Gaps And Challenges. Chapter 13, A. Marcomini, G. W. Suter II, and A. Critto (ed.), Decision Support Systems For Risk Based Management Of Contaminated Sites. Springer Science + Business Media, New York, NY, (Section 2):275-280, (2009).
Impact/Purpose:
To summarize gaps and challenges that may help to identify obstacles for the application of Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and to promote future advancements in this field.
Description:
A plethora of information is available when considering decision support systems for risk-based management of contaminated land. Broad issues of what is contaminated land, what is a brownfield, and what is remediation are discussed in EU countries and the U.S. Making decisions about contaminated land is a multi-dimensional problem and can be quite complex. These factors demonstrate the need for decision support systems that will address the myriad of issues regarding risk-based contaminated land management. Decision support systems provide a framework for analyzing management and policy options with diverse data, for contaminated land management. The present chapter is intended to summarize gaps and challenges that may help to identify obstacles for the application of Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and to promote future advancements in this field. Identified gaps are where additional contaminated land management DSSs should be focused. The challenges refer to what anyone faces when they attempt to build and implement a DSS.
