Managing Troubled Waters : The Role of Marine Environmental Monitoring.
Managing Troubled Waters : The Role of Marine Environmental Monitoring.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (135 pages)
Managing Troubled Waters -- Copyright -- Preface -- BACKGROUND -- SCOPE -- STUDY METHOD -- ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- THE PROBLEM -- GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY -- MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING -- MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING EXPENDITURES -- PERCEIVED INADEQUACIES OF MONITORING -- ASSESSMENT APPROACH -- Conceptual Model -- Case Studies -- Integration of Information -- 2 The Role of Monitoring in Environmental Management -- THE IMPORTANCE OF MONITORING -- Why Monitor? -- The Costs of Not Monitoring -- Limitations of Monitoring -- The Evolution of Monitoring -- Success Stories in Monitoring -- Protecting Public Health -- Validating Models: Examples from Modeling Estuarine Water Quality -- Assessing the Effectiveness of Pollution Abatement -- INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS OF MONITORING -- The Principal Players Involved -- Public Pressures and Perceptions -- Legal and Regulatory Influences -- Funding and Human Resources -- Agency Decision Making -- Ten Steps to Strengthening the Role Of Monitoring in Environmental Management -- 3 Strengthening Regional and National Monitoring -- CONTINUUM OF MONITORING SCALES -- THE ROLE OF REGIONAL MONITORING -- Rationale for Regional Monitoring -- Lessons from the Southern California Bight and Chesapeake Bay -- The Federal Role -- THE ROLE OF NATIONAL MONITORING -- Rationale for National Monitoring -- Alternate Approaches -- An Independent National Fixed-Station Monitoring Program -- An Integrated Network of Regional Monitoring Programs -- A Network of Regional Programs Coupled with a National Program -- COORDINATION -- The Need for Interagency and Intergovernmental Coordination -- Opportunities to Develop a Coordinated Program -- 4 Designing and Implementing Monitoring Programs -- A CONCEPTUAL APPROACH TO DESIGNING MONITORING PROGRAMS. General Versus Specific Design Methodologies -- A Methodology for Monitoring Design -- STEP 1: DEFINE EXPECTATIONS AND GOALS -- STEP 2: DEFINE STUDY STRATEGY -- Conceptual Models and Predictions -- Boundaries -- Predictions and Uncertainty -- STEP 3: CONDUCT PRELIMINARY STUDIES AND RESEARCH -- STEP 4: DEVELOP SAMPLING/MEASUREMENT DESIGN -- Linking Testable Questions to Useful Information -- Defining Meaningful Change -- The Influence of Natural Variability -- Selecting Variables to Measure -- The Sampling Design and Its Statistical Basis -- QUALITY ASSURANCE: AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF MONITORING PROGRAM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION -- STEP 6: CONVERT DATA INTO USEFUL INFORMATION -- Data Management -- Data Analysis and Modeling -- STEP 7: DISSEMINATE RESULTS -- REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS -- 5 Conclusions and Recommendations -- 1. MONITORING CAN STRENGTHEN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT -- Conclusions -- Recommendations -- 2. COMPREHENSIVE MONITORING OF REGIONAL AND NATIONAL TRENDS IS NEEDED -- Conclusions -- Recommendations -- 3. IMPROVED PROGRAM DESIGN AND INFORMATION PRODUCTS WILL MAKE MONITORING RESULTS MORE USEFUL -- Conclusions -- Recommendations -- References -- Appendixes -- A Biographical Information -- B A Conceptual Model of Marine Environmental Monitoring -- Institutional Setting -- Natural Environmental Setting -- Environmental Quality and Human Health Objectives -- Technical Design -- Implementation -- Technical Interpretation -- Technology Development and Innovation -- Data Management and Analysis -- Decision Making -- C Participants in Case Studies -- Southern California Bight -- Chesapeake Bay -- Particulate Wastes in the Oceans -- Index.
9780309571739
Water quality management -- Government policy -- United States.
Water quality monitoring stations -- United States.
Marine pollution -- United States -- Measurement.
Marine pollution -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Electronic books.
HC110.W32.M36 1990
Managing Troubled Waters -- Copyright -- Preface -- BACKGROUND -- SCOPE -- STUDY METHOD -- ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- THE PROBLEM -- GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY -- MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING -- MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING EXPENDITURES -- PERCEIVED INADEQUACIES OF MONITORING -- ASSESSMENT APPROACH -- Conceptual Model -- Case Studies -- Integration of Information -- 2 The Role of Monitoring in Environmental Management -- THE IMPORTANCE OF MONITORING -- Why Monitor? -- The Costs of Not Monitoring -- Limitations of Monitoring -- The Evolution of Monitoring -- Success Stories in Monitoring -- Protecting Public Health -- Validating Models: Examples from Modeling Estuarine Water Quality -- Assessing the Effectiveness of Pollution Abatement -- INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS OF MONITORING -- The Principal Players Involved -- Public Pressures and Perceptions -- Legal and Regulatory Influences -- Funding and Human Resources -- Agency Decision Making -- Ten Steps to Strengthening the Role Of Monitoring in Environmental Management -- 3 Strengthening Regional and National Monitoring -- CONTINUUM OF MONITORING SCALES -- THE ROLE OF REGIONAL MONITORING -- Rationale for Regional Monitoring -- Lessons from the Southern California Bight and Chesapeake Bay -- The Federal Role -- THE ROLE OF NATIONAL MONITORING -- Rationale for National Monitoring -- Alternate Approaches -- An Independent National Fixed-Station Monitoring Program -- An Integrated Network of Regional Monitoring Programs -- A Network of Regional Programs Coupled with a National Program -- COORDINATION -- The Need for Interagency and Intergovernmental Coordination -- Opportunities to Develop a Coordinated Program -- 4 Designing and Implementing Monitoring Programs -- A CONCEPTUAL APPROACH TO DESIGNING MONITORING PROGRAMS. General Versus Specific Design Methodologies -- A Methodology for Monitoring Design -- STEP 1: DEFINE EXPECTATIONS AND GOALS -- STEP 2: DEFINE STUDY STRATEGY -- Conceptual Models and Predictions -- Boundaries -- Predictions and Uncertainty -- STEP 3: CONDUCT PRELIMINARY STUDIES AND RESEARCH -- STEP 4: DEVELOP SAMPLING/MEASUREMENT DESIGN -- Linking Testable Questions to Useful Information -- Defining Meaningful Change -- The Influence of Natural Variability -- Selecting Variables to Measure -- The Sampling Design and Its Statistical Basis -- QUALITY ASSURANCE: AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF MONITORING PROGRAM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION -- STEP 6: CONVERT DATA INTO USEFUL INFORMATION -- Data Management -- Data Analysis and Modeling -- STEP 7: DISSEMINATE RESULTS -- REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS -- 5 Conclusions and Recommendations -- 1. MONITORING CAN STRENGTHEN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT -- Conclusions -- Recommendations -- 2. COMPREHENSIVE MONITORING OF REGIONAL AND NATIONAL TRENDS IS NEEDED -- Conclusions -- Recommendations -- 3. IMPROVED PROGRAM DESIGN AND INFORMATION PRODUCTS WILL MAKE MONITORING RESULTS MORE USEFUL -- Conclusions -- Recommendations -- References -- Appendixes -- A Biographical Information -- B A Conceptual Model of Marine Environmental Monitoring -- Institutional Setting -- Natural Environmental Setting -- Environmental Quality and Human Health Objectives -- Technical Design -- Implementation -- Technical Interpretation -- Technology Development and Innovation -- Data Management and Analysis -- Decision Making -- C Participants in Case Studies -- Southern California Bight -- Chesapeake Bay -- Particulate Wastes in the Oceans -- Index.
9780309571739
Water quality management -- Government policy -- United States.
Water quality monitoring stations -- United States.
Marine pollution -- United States -- Measurement.
Marine pollution -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Electronic books.
HC110.W32.M36 1990