An investigation of correlations between different environmental assessments and risk assessment

The increasing deterioration of environment is affecting our entire word. Environmental management plays a crucial role in maintaining environmental sustainability. While environmental management is complicated due to the complex natural ecosystem which is poorly understood and ill-structured, and significant uncertainties. A variety of environment assessment processes, e.g., environmental impact assessment (EIA), regional strategic environmental assessment (R-SEA), the precautionary principle, sustainability assessment (SA) etc., widely used in environmental management are reviewed and their correlations with human health risk assessment (HHRA) and ecological risk assessment (ERA) are investigated. The results of this paper facilitate the decision makers selecting proper assessment framework and/or some combinations of them in environmental management.