Monitoring Environmental Management

Timmerman, J.G., Ottens, J.J. and Ward, R.C. (2000) The information cycle as a framework for defining information goals for water-quality monitoring. Environmental Management, 25, 229-239. 

Air pollution and environmental officers, environmental protection associates, environmental quality managers and environmentalists, and specialists (air pollution, air pollution control, air quality, air quality control, air resource, envaronmental control, environmental health, environmental management, environmental quality, highway transportation, monitoring, pollution control, program, public participation, quality assurance, and unspecified). 

Continuous monitoring of emission gases is necessary to ascertain that the emissions from a production unit remain within the limit values. - The limit value for SO2 in Finland is 4 kg or less per tonne of pulp produced. The authorities often require plants to continuously monitor the main emissions. Information on the environmental load generated hy a production unit is available to customers upon request. This information is also used for the environmental management of the plant. 

Once commissioned, even the best-planned industrial development requires monitoring and management to ensure that its operation continues to be environmentally acceptable. This applies equally to established industries. When unexpected environmental problems develop, a rapid response is required to assess the cause and magnitude of the problem and to devise remedial measures. 

The Type I error is the error most often cited in the literature. In environmental monitoring, however, the Type II error may be more important. A false negative could create major problems for the environmental manager if it suggests that a cleanup is not necessary when in fact action levels are being exceeded. 

Pesticides, including insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides, are widely used in agriculture, and the potential for these residues to accumulate in food has led to concern for human safety. Pesticide residues may enter food animals from environmental sources or from treated or contaminated feeds. Immunoassay development for pesticides has had major impacts for pesticide registrations, analysis of residues in foods, monitoring environmental contamination, determination of occupational exposure, and integration of pest management. 

Shanklin DE, Sidle WC, Ferguson ME (1995) Micro-purge low-flow sampling of uranium-contaminated ground-water at the Femald environmental management project. Ground Water Monitor Remediat 15 168-176... 

The clear lesson from nature is that effective management of microbial fouling in complex dynamic systems requires a consistently administered program comprised of diagnostics, monitors, environmentally sensible remedies, and careful regulation of those remedies. 

Carruthers, G. and Tinning, G. 2003. Where, and how, do monitoring and sustainability indicators fit into environmental management systems Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 43(3) 307-323. 

EMC (Environmental Management Center), 2003. Monitoring of persistent organic pollutants in the coastal hydrosphere of Indonesia. Environmental Monitoring and Governance in the East Asian Hydrosphere. Country report, UNU, Japan, http // landbase.hq.unu.edu/Data.htm... 

McCarthur, S. (2000) Beyond carrying capacity Introducing a model to monitor and manage visitor activity in forests. In X. Font and J. Tribe (eds) Forest Tourism and Recreation Case Studies in Environmental Management (pp. 259-278). Wallingford CABI Publishing. 

At various facilities that process uranium for defense programs, uranium is released to the atmosphere under controlled conditions, resulting in deposition on the soil and surface waters. Monitoring data from the area surrounding the Fernald Environmental Management Project (formerly the Fernald Feed Materials Production Center) showed that soil contained uranium released from the facility (Stevenson and Hardy 1993). 

Trace metals monitoring as a tool for characterization of Antarctic ecosystems and environmental management. The Argentine programme at Jubany Station... 

The Antarctic Treaty and the Madrid Protocol provide the necessary framework for environmental management and have obliged all the nations with an active presence in the continent to reduce their impacts on the antarctic environment. The Treaty s aim is to guarantee the peaceful use of Antarctica and to ensure conservation of flora, fauna and the natural environment. Through more adequate environmental impact assessment and management as well as environmental monitoring it is expected the Antarctic will remain the cleanest place on earth despite an increase in human presence. 

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