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Human health assessment for remediation technologies (HEART): a multi-criteria decision analysis tool

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  • Atousa Soltani

    (University of British Columbia)

  • Roberta Dyck

    (University of British Columbia)

  • Navid Hossaini

    (University of British Columbia)

  • Asish Mohapatra

    (Environmental Health Program, Regions and Programs Bureau)

  • Kasun Hewage

    (University of British Columbia)

  • Rehan Sadiq

    (University of British Columbia)

Abstract

Government of Canada has identified over 22,000 contaminated sites across Canada. Custodians are responsible to manage environmental risks of their sites to human health and the environment (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat in Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory, 2015) from identifying the contaminants to choosing an optimal remediation technology. Remediation technologies—apart from their initial goal to minimize risk—can have negative impacts on human health; hence, custodians need a tool that helps them manage human health risks of available remediation technologies. Although existing tools consider various criteria (environmental and socio-economic), a tool that specifically evaluates human health risks of remediation technologies may be missing; therefore this study proposes and designs human health assessment for remediation technologies (HEART) and presents a practical example with site-data. HEART estimates human health risks (cancer and non-cancer) associated with remediation techniques and combines them into a single score to help address exposure and human health risks and fulfill custodian need to select and evaluate remedial technologies.

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  • Atousa Soltani & Roberta Dyck & Navid Hossaini & Asish Mohapatra & Kasun Hewage & Rehan Sadiq, 2016. "Human health assessment for remediation technologies (HEART): a multi-criteria decision analysis tool," International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, Springer;The Society for Reliability, Engineering Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM),India, and Division of Operation and Maintenance, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, vol. 7(2), pages 183-200, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ijsaem:v:7:y:2016:i:2:d:10.1007_s13198-016-0416-4
    DOI: 10.1007/s13198-016-0416-4
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