Costs and Benefits of Delaying Remediation on Ecological Resources at Contaminated Sites

Burger, Joanna

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“…This social and emotional toll was felt for decades when they were denied access to their traditional grounds, and when there was little communication with their elders or Tribal members. For many Native Americans, it is not just a matter of the existence of chemicals and radionuclide contamination on their Tribal Treaty lands, but that infrastructures and the destruction or degradation of ecosystems damages burial and hunting grounds, destroys their traditional medicinal and religious plants, and degrades viewsheds (Bohnee et al., 2011; Burger, 2019; Gochfeld et al., 2015; Landeen & Pinkham, 1999). Their culture and values require intact ecosystems, per se (Burger et al., 2010; Harris & Harper, 2000), and in their view the Columbia River was impacted, in this case, by chromium.…”

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“…Individual and species susceptibilities the risk to ecological resources, particularly after disruptions, can be found in Burger (2019) and Burger et al (2020Burger et al ( , 2022. The traditional indices or endpoints for ecological risk are far narrower than the complexities in Table 1, but provide an initial understanding of the issues involved (Table 2).…”

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Ecological information and approaches needed for risk communication dialogs for acute or chronic environmental crises

Burger

2022

Risk Analysis

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Scientists, social scientists, risk communicators, and many others are often thrust into a crisis situation where they need to interact with a range of stakeholders, including governmental personnel (tribal, U.S. federal, state, local), local residents, and other publics, as well as other scientists and other risk communicators in situations where information is incomplete and evolving. This paper provides: (1) an overall framework for thinking about communication during crises, from acute to chronic, and local to widespread, (2) a template for the types of ecological information needed to address public and environmental concerns, and (3) examples to illustrate how this information will aid risk communicators. The main goal is providing an approach to the knowledge needed by communicators to address the challenges of protecting ecological resources during an environmental crisis, or for an on‐going, chronic environmental issue. To understand the risk to these ecological resources, it is important to identify the type of event, whether it is acute or chronic (or some combination of these), what receptors are at risk, and what stressors are involved (natural, biological, chemical, radiological). For ecological resources, the key information a communicator needs for a crisis is whether any of the following are present: threatened or endangered species, species of special concern, species groups of concern (e.g., neotropical bird migrants, breeding frogs in vernal ponds, rare plant assemblages), unique or rare habitats, species of commercial and recreational interest, and species/habitats of especial interest for medicinal, cultural, or religious activities. Communication among stakeholders is complicated with respect to risk to ecological receptors because of differences in trust, credibility, empathy, perceptions, world view valuation of the resources, and in many cases, a history of misinformation, disinformation, or no information. Exposure of salmon spawning in the Columbia River to hexavalent chromium from the Hanford Site is used as an example of communication challenges with different stakeholders, including Native Americans with Tribal Treaty rights to the land.

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Ecological information and approaches needed for risk communication dialogs for acute or chronic environmental crises

Burger

2022

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“…Most of these evaluation measures are grounded in economics, using hedonic pricing models to analyze changes in housing values in neighborhoods around contaminated sites. Economists also apply cost-benefi t analyses by comparing societal benefi ts of cleanups, in the form of increased housing prices or tax revenue, to cleanup costs (Burger 2019;Burger et al 2019;Greenstone and Gallagher 2008;Savchenko and Braden 2019). Hedonic modeling analyses indicate that environmental cleanups can have a positive eff ect on neighborhood housing prices (Chattopadhyay et al 2005;Timmins 2011, 2013;Ketkar 1992;Mastromonaco and Maniloff 2018), but not always (Greenstone and Gallagher 2008;Kiel 1995).…”

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Conceptualizing and Capturing Outcomes of Environmental Cleanup at Contaminated Sites

Kiessling

Maxwell

2021

Environment and Society

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Our article analyzes interdisciplinary literature within the social sciences on outcomes of environmental cleanups at Superfund, brownfield, and other contaminated sites. By focusing on postremediation sites and outcomes, we expand the understanding of the sociopolitical life of contaminated sites over time. First, we examine the technoscientific practices of how scientists and environmental managers seek to make cleanup outcomes legible and meaningful. Next, we engage with a wider array of literature on pollution/toxicity, uncovering circular temporalities in cleanup processes along with continuities in pollution/toxicity and in political struggle. Finally, we examine the social worlds of postremediation landscapes, drawing attention to how cleanups create new relationships among people, history, and nature. In conclusion, we identify areas of opportunity for these insights to inform the conceptualization and evaluation of cleanup outcomes in ways that better incorporate the complex dynamics of postremediation social worlds.

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“…In November 2019, the third edition of this superb conference took place once again in Costa de Caparica, Portugal, keeping to our tradition of collegiality and scientific endeavor to help the environment. We listened to amazing plenary talks by Joanna Burger (USA) on the temporal trends in heavy metals in the US Atlantic Coast Estuaries (Ostrom et al 1999 ; Burger 2019 ) and by Elena Rodica Ionescu (France) on toxicity and biosensing of environmental pollutants (Ionescu et al 2006 ; Zhou et al 2019 ). Jia-Qian Jiang (UK) spoke about water and wastewater treatments using double hydroxide materials (Wang et al 2019 ; Jiang and Lloyd 2002 ), Shin Takahashi (Japan) delighted us with a presentation about the persistence of organic pollutants in the Asia Pacific Region (Monirith et al 2003 ; Anh et al 2019 ), and Jose Luis Gomez-Ariza (Spain) captivated us with a talk combining analysis and health problems in relation to metallomics and metabolomics in environmental metal toxicity assessment (Rodriguez-Moro et al 2020 ; Gómez-Ariza et al 2000 ).…”

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“…We would like to congratulate Prof. Joanna Burger, who received the Proteomass Scientific Society Career Award 2019 for her contributions to eco-toxicology, behavioral toxicology, ecology, and environmental monitoring and assessment (Ostrom et al 1999 : Burger 2019 ) (Fig. 1 ).…”

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Impacts of environmental issues on health and well-being: a global pollution challenge

Lodeiro

Capelo-Martínez

Santos

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Every 2 years, the environmental, chemical, and health research communities meet in Costa de Caparica, Portugal to showcase the latest technologies, methodologies and research advances in pollution detection, contamination control, remediation, and related health issues. Since its inception in 2015, the International Caparica Conference on Pollution Metal Ions and Molecules (PTIM) has become a biennial global forum to hear from those who protect the land, the water, and the air at all environmental scales. During past PTIM editions, we have learned about numerous efforts to develop new recovery and clean-up processes to restore the natural equilibria of our planet. Soil, land, water, and air are the key focus of efforts that will require deeper understanding and better control.

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Costs and Benefits of Delaying Remediation on Ecological Resources at Contaminated Sites

Cited by 5 publications

References 69 publications

Ecological information and approaches needed for risk communication dialogs for acute or chronic environmental crises

Ecological information and approaches needed for risk communication dialogs for acute or chronic environmental crises

Conceptualizing and Capturing Outcomes of Environmental Cleanup at Contaminated Sites

Impacts of environmental issues on health and well-being: a global pollution challenge

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