Incorporating Habitat Characterization Into Risk-Trace Software for Spatially Explicit Exposure Assessment

Linkov, Igor; Kapustka, Lawrence A.; Grebenkov, A.; Andrizhievski, A; Loukashevich, A.; Trifonov, A. G.

doi:10.1007/1-4020-2243-3_15

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“…Such models include habitat suitability indices evaluation, and transport models for radionuclides and chemicals in the environment. These models are used within the specific case studies on environmental protection and land use planning (Linkov, 2004(Linkov, , 2006Yatsalo, 2007).…”

Section: Environmental Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-Criteria Spatial Decision Support System DECERNS

Yatsalo¹,

Didenko²,

Tkachuk³

et al. 2010

International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change

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Land-use planning and environmental management often requires an implementation of both geoyspatial information analysis and value-driven criteria within the decision-making process. DECERNS (Decision Evaluation in Complex Risk Network Systems) is a web-based distributed decision support system for multicriteria analysis of a wide range of spatially-explicit land management alternatives. It integrates mainly basic and some advanced GIS functions and implements several Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods and tools. DECERNS can also be integrated with a model server containing generic and site specific models for in-depth analysis of project and environmental risks as well as other decision criteria under consideration. This paper provides an overview of the modeling approaches as well as methods and tools used in DECERNS. Application of the DECERNS WebSDSS (Web-based Spatial Decision Support System) for a housing site selection case study is presented.

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Section: Environmental Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-Criteria Spatial Decision Support System DECERNS

Yatsalo¹,

Didenko²,

Tkachuk³

et al. 2010

International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change

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“…Proof of concept work regarding spatially explicit exposure models such as SEEM (Wickwire et al 2004), which is a component of the U.S. Army Risk Assessment Modeling System (ARAMS) (www.wes.army.mil/el/arams/arams.html) and Risk-Trace (Linkov et al 2004a(Linkov et al , 2004b, have been developed. These models simulate the stochastic movement of one or more receptors across the landscape in relation to the quality of the habitat for the species.…”

Section: Habitatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Populations, Habitat, and Ecological Systems: Elusive but Essential Considerations for a Landscape Perspective

Kapustka

2010

Environmental Risk Assessment and Management From a Landscape Perspective

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“…Risk assessments can be made more relevant to stakeholders, including risk managers, if greater attention is given to characterization of landscape features that influence ecological resources (Kapustka 2003(Kapustka , 2005Kapustka et al 2001Kapustka et al , 2004Linkov et al 2004).…”

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Ecological Risk Assessment toward a Landscape Perspective

Kapustka

2010

Environmental Risk Assessment and Management From a Landscape Perspective

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The fundamental concepts of risk assessment are imbedded in our cultural prehistory. Then of course the considerations were intimately linked to daily survival: Was it safe to cross a river, attack a woolly mammoth, eat the camas bulbs, or enter the territory of hostile neighbors in search food, shelter, and treasure? Scientific inquiry enabled improved understanding of connections between events and consequences. For example, efforts by Pasteur and Koch established a basis for managing bacterial contaminants and thereby develop safeguards against diseases.The application of risk assessment and risk management to biological situations likely grew out of the science of epidemiology. Epidemiology, the study of diseases in populations (Schwabe et al. 1977), emerged as a formal discipline in the late 1800s following a severe cholera epidemic in London. The cause of the epidemic was traced to contaminated drinking water, and the solution was simple: Remove the pump handles from the contaminated wells. The process that was used to make the diagnosis and find the solution represented a new way of thinking, one that searched for patterns and traced linkages that could explain the observed phenomenon.But formal constructs of risk assessment as we know them today are relatively new. Though at one level, the procedures appear to be simple and the math is generally elementary, the execution of the procedures quickly becomes complicated. The many decisions that must be made in setting up an assessment, though none individually may seem very challenging, can become daunting with the interconnectedness of the suite Environmental Risk and Management from a Landscape Perspective, edited by Kapustka and Landis

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Incorporating Habitat Characterization Into Risk-Trace Software for Spatially Explicit Exposure Assessment

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Multi-Criteria Spatial Decision Support System DECERNS

Multi-Criteria Spatial Decision Support System DECERNS

Populations, Habitat, and Ecological Systems: Elusive but Essential Considerations for a Landscape Perspective

Ecological Risk Assessment toward a Landscape Perspective

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