Ecological causal assessment / / Susan B. Norton, Susan M. Cormier, Glenn W. Suter II

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910568176103321
• Autore: Norton Susan B. <1959, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Taylor & Francis, 2015; Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-429-11046-4; 1-138-07393-8; 1-4398-7015-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (xvi, 497 pages )
• Collana: Environmental Assessment and Management
• Disciplina: 577
• Soggetti: Ecological assessment (Biology); Environmental impact analysis
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editors; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: What Is a Cause?; Chapter 3: How Have Causes Been Identified?; Chapter 4: Characteristics and Evidence of Causation; Chapter 5: Human Cognition and Causal Assessment; Chapter 6: Our Approach for Identifying Causes; Chapter 7: Defining the Case; Chapter 8: Listing Candidate Causes; Chapter 9: Case-Specific Observations: Assembling and Exploring Data; Chapter 10: Case-Specific Observations: Deriving Evidence; Chapter 11: Regional Observational Studies: Assembling and Exploring Data; Chapter 12: Regional Observational Studies: Deriving EvidenceChapter 13: Regional Observational Studies: : Addressing Confounding; Chapter 14: Assessment-Specific Field Study Designs and Methods; Chapter 15: Laboratory Experiments and Microcosms; Chapter 16: Mesocosm Studies; Chapter 17: Symptoms, Body Burdens, and Biomarkers; Chapter 18: Simulation Models; Chapter 19: Forming Causal Conclusions; Chapter 20: Communicating the Findings; Chapter 21: After the Causal Assessment: Using the Findings; Chapter 22: Causal ; Assessment in a Complex Urban Watershed-The Long Creek Case Study; Chapter 23: Clear Fork Watershed Case Study: The Value of State Monitoring ProgramsChapter 24: Northern River Basins Study and the Athabasca River: The Value of Experimental Approaches in a Weight-of-Evidence Assessment; Chapter 25: Applying CADDIS to a Terrestrial Case: San Joaquin Kit Foxes on an Oil Field; Glossary; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; References; Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: Edited by experts at the leading edge of the development of causal assessment methods for more than two decades, Ecological Causal Assessment gives insight and expert guidance on how to identify cause-effect relationships in environmental systems. The book discusses the importance of asking the fundamental question ""Why did this effect happen?"" before moving on to ""How can we fix it?"" The book provides a deeper understanding of different philosophical and analytical approaches, and of cognitive tendencies that can lead to errors. It describes formal processes for causal assessment that are