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AN OVERVIEW OF DATA INTEGRATION METHODS FOR REGIONAL ASSESSMENT
Citation:
Locantore, N. W., L. T. Tran, R. V. O'Neill, P. W. McKinnis, E R. Smith, AND M. O'Connell. AN OVERVIEW OF DATA INTEGRATION METHODS FOR REGIONAL ASSESSMENT. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 94(1-3):249-261, (2004).
Impact/Purpose:
Provide regional-scale, spatially explicit information on the extent and distribution of both stressors and sensitive resources.
Develop and evaluate techniques to integrate information on exposure and effects so that relative risk can be assessed and management actions can be prioritized.
Predict consequences of potential environmental changes under alternative future scenarios.
Effectively communicate economic and quality of life trade-offs associated with alternative environmental policies.
Develop techniques to prioritize areas for ecological restoration.
Identify information gaps and recommend actions to improve monitoring and focus research.
There are two task objectives that reflect the work done by LCB in support of the ReVA Program objectives:
Provide information management, spatial analysis support, and data and information accessibility for the ReVA Program
Provide program management support, technology transfer, and outreach.
Description:
One of the goals of the EPA's Regional Vulnerability Assessment (ReVA) project is to take diverse environmental data and develop objective criteria to evaluate environmental risk assessments at the regions: scale. The data include (but are not limited to) variables for forests, air quality, water quality, biodiversity, human health socioeconomic, and measures of pollution. Although assessments are usually performed for these groups individually, ReVA has undertaken the task of trying to use all the available information together to allow for broader assessment.
This paper will briefly describe each of the integration methods currently being evaluated for assessment, and discuss how these methods are being used as objective criteria for risk assessment. These methods, once the evaluation is completed, will become available on the ReVA website (www.epa.gov/reva) as a web-based tool.