This book summarizes current knowledge on aquatic and terrestrial environmental quality standards and places it in a wider socioeconomic and regulatory context. It explains how to derive environmental standards that are defensible from a scientific and socioeconomic perspective. Using multidisciplinary techniques that can be applied to water, sediments, and soils, the text demonstrates how to select the best form and derivation method relative to individual environmental standards. The author presents an in-depth and expedient consideration of when, where, and how environmental standards...