The “one-out, all-out” principle entails the risk of imposing unnecessary restoration costs: A study case in two Mediterranean coastal lakes

Prato, Susanna; Valle, Paola La; Luca, Elena De; Lattanzi, Loretta; Migliore, Giada; Morgana, J.G.; Cristina, Maria Luisa; Nicoletti, L.; Izzo, G.; Mistri, Michele

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.01.054

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“…The issues identified in this study: who to involve, the added value of increased trust, the appropriate scale at which to address issues and the difficulty of identifying a common interest have been raised by other authors in regard to other countries and regions too [19,21,22,[53][54][55][56]. Several authors report that stakeholder involvement can result in more efficient programmes of measures [21,54], but not in all cases [57]. As the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) (2014) explains, a party has to have a specific interest at stake if it is to become engaged.…”

Section: Social-economic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 87%

“…A typical example of this is the status assessment for water bodies, as it is based on the 'one out, all out' principle: this assessment leaves out early recovery of the ecosystem and as such does not necessarily reflect the actual ecological quality. As a consequence, this could result in an over-or underestimation of the actual ecological state of the water body [57] (Italy).…”

Section: Ecological Legal and Social-economic Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards More Effective Water Quality Governance: A Review of Social-Economic, Legal and Ecological Perspectives and Their Interactions

2018

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In this article, social-economic, legal and ecological perspectives on effectiveness of water quality governance and their interactions have been studied. Worldwide, authorities are facing the challenge of restoring and preserving aquatic ecosystems in accordance with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 6). Over the last few decades, governance approaches have often been used to realise these ambitions. To date, scholars have identified that it is difficult to relate governance approaches to water quality improvement and have offered several different explanations for this. Combined with a targeted conceptualisation of the perspectives and their interactions, the systematic literature review demonstrates the gap that exists in the current understanding of these interactions and what their effects are on water quality improvement, especially in regard to the identification of ecological issues and their boundary conditions for the legal framework and the development of measures and follow-up. The review also reveals that the scientific debate is focused on the planning rather than implementation phase. A step forward can be made by supplementing existing analytical frameworks by the interactions between the different perspectives, especially those related to problem definition and the development and realisation of measures.

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Section: Social-economic Perspectivementioning

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Section: Ecological Legal and Social-economic Interactionsmentioning

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Towards More Effective Water Quality Governance: A Review of Social-Economic, Legal and Ecological Perspectives and Their Interactions

2018

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“…Reification fallacies may seriously affect policy making (Bradbury 1989;Hyman 2010). Unjustified interpretations can induce type I errors (risk signals triggering abatement costs, without the signal being related to true impacts [Prato et al 2014]) as well as type II errors (the potential impacts of many chemicals and their mixtures are neglected or remain unknown because of limitations of current science).…”

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Prospective mixture risk assessment and management prioritizations for river catchments with diverse land uses

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Zwart³

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Enviro Toxic and Chemistry

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Ecological risk assessment increasingly focuses on risks from chemical mixtures and multiple stressors because ecosystems are commonly exposed to a plethora of contaminants and nonchemical stressors. To simplify the task of assessing potential mixture effects, we explored 3 land use–related chemical emission scenarios. We applied a tiered methodology to judge the implications of the emissions of chemicals from agricultural practices, domestic discharges, and urban runoff in a quantitative model. The results showed land use–dependent mixture exposures, clearly discriminating downstream effects of land uses, with unique chemical “signatures” regarding composition, concentration, and temporal patterns. Associated risks were characterized in relation to the land‐use scenarios. Comparisons to measured environmental concentrations and predicted impacts showed relatively good similarity. The results suggest that the land uses imply exceedances of regulatory protective environmental quality standards, varying over time in relation to rain events and associated flow and dilution variation. Higher‐tier analyses using ecotoxicological effect criteria confirmed that species assemblages may be affected by exposures exceeding no‐effect levels and that mixture exposure could be associated with predicted species loss under certain situations. The model outcomes can inform various types of prioritization to support risk management, including a ranking across land uses as a whole, a ranking on characteristics of exposure times and frequencies, and various rankings of the relative role of individual chemicals. Though all results are based on in silico assessments, the prospective land use–based approach applied in the present study yields useful insights for simplifying and assessing potential ecological risks of chemical mixtures and can therefore be useful for catchment‐management decisions. Environ Toxicol Chem 2018;37:715–728. © 2017 The Authors. Environmental Toxicology Chemistry Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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“…The fluctuations observed in the present work in terms of both pollutant concentrations and biotic indices reflected the marked fluctuations of environmental parameters characterizing those ecosystems. In this framework, the relationship between biotic and physico-chemical variables is always complex, and disentangling the effect of natural and anthropogenic disturbances is a major challenge [49,50].…”

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Multiannual Trend of Micro-Pollutants in Sediments and Benthic Community Response in a Mediterranean Lagoon (Sacca di Goro, Italy)

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Ferrari

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Long-term variations of ecological status in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon (Sacca di Goro, Northern Adriatic) were investigated, combining data on the concentration of surface sediment contaminants and on the structure of the macrobenthic community. The aim was to assess any amount of chemical contamination and check the response of the macrobenthic community to sediment contamination. Over the studied period, the sediments of the lagoon showed contamination by trace metals and organochlorine pesticides, with most of them exceeding the thresholds indicated by the Italian legislation in many samples. Contamination by polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) instead never exceeded the threshold. The ecological status based on the macrobenthic community, evaluated through biotic indices (AMBI and M-AMBI), fell below the Good/Moderate threshold in most samples. The results indicate a possible influence of toxic compounds in sediment on benthic organisms, but most of the variability shown by the macrobenthic community is probably due to other factors. The difficulty in establishing a cause/effect relationship was due to the co-occurrence and variability of various stressors (both natural and anthropogenic) and their interactions. The methods currently used for monitoring transitional waters thus seem insufficient to disentangle the effect of pollutants and other environmental variables on the benthos. Integrated approaches (e.g., bioaccumulation and toxicity tests) are thus needed for a more precise identification of the risk posed by a high concentration of pollutants in such environments.

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The “one-out, all-out” principle entails the risk of imposing unnecessary restoration costs: A study case in two Mediterranean coastal lakes

Cited by 42 publications

References 42 publications

Towards More Effective Water Quality Governance: A Review of Social-Economic, Legal and Ecological Perspectives and Their Interactions

Towards More Effective Water Quality Governance: A Review of Social-Economic, Legal and Ecological Perspectives and Their Interactions

Prospective mixture risk assessment and management prioritizations for river catchments with diverse land uses

Multiannual Trend of Micro-Pollutants in Sediments and Benthic Community Response in a Mediterranean Lagoon (Sacca di Goro, Italy)

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