New methodology for analysing and increasing the cost-efficiency of environmental monitoring networks

Current Status, Challenges, and Policy Recommendations of China’s Marine Monitoring Systems for Coastal Persistent Organic Pollution Based on Experts’ Questionnaire Analysis

“…POPs monitoring indicators of marine atmosphere and dry and wet deposition monitoring projects should be increased. Because of the long-distance migration ability of POPs, it is suggested that the pollution transmission characteristics of atmospheric POPs need to be understood and the construction of atmospheric POPs monitoring network and long-term monitoring in key sea areas should be strengthened, including key sewage discharge areas, eco-sensitive areas, harmful algal bloom monitoring areas, and nature reserves, which is for the assessment of sources, emissions, and risks of offshore POPs [45,46].…”

Coastal waters environmental monitoring supported by river basin pluviometry and offshore wave data

“…Rainfall values are shown as 15 days accumulated rain in relation to the sampling water campaign; that means, sum of rain data for 15 days prior to the dates the water samples were taken. The 15-day ''buffer'' was chosen as proxy based on the findings from Valencian coastal waters monitoring efforts (Abramic et al, 2012(Abramic et al, , 2014 and outcomes of studies done on the Jucar river basin and related small catchments (García- Bartual and Marco, 1990;Camarasa and Garcıa Bartual, 1991;Camarasa and Tilford, 2002):…”

“…This method reduce costs for Valencian coastal waters monitoring in the scope of WFD around 10%. Additionally, we developed method to inquire the efficiency of sampling stations distribution in the monitoring programme (as in the water body) and to provide alternative that can reduce sampling and within significantly downgrade financing (Abramic et al, 2014).…”

A Synthesis of Marine Monitoring Methods With the Potential to Enhance the Status Assessment of the Baltic Sea

“…Yet, sometimes a new method is not always transferable to routine monitoring contexts due to several constraints such as the inaccessibility to the equipment required for sample collection or preservation. Also, the study of the costefficiency of monitoring methods is not very usual (Abramic et al, 2014;Bellanger and Levrel, 2017;Aylagas et al, 2018).…”