Sediment Quality Assessment and Management in Marine and Freshwater Environments
Current Approaches, Emerging Tools, and Future Directions
- 1st Edition - November 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Sabine E. Apitz, Richard Wenning
- Language: English
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Description
Description
Sediment Quality Assessment and Management in Marine and Freshwater Environments: Current Approaches, Emerging Tools, and Future Directions addresses the urgent need for practical, state-of-the-science guidance on assessing and managing contaminated sediments in both marine and freshwater systems. Recognizing the vital role sediments play in water quality, ecosystem health, and human infrastructure, this comprehensive volume bridges the gap between scientific principles and real-world management practices. The book provides a thorough examination of current assessment frameworks, diagnostic tools, and innovative methodologies, while highlighting the unique challenges of transboundary and site-specific sediment management.
With contributions from leading experts, it offers clear insights into the biological, chemical, and geophysical factors that influence sediment quality, and explores the latest advances in ecotoxicology, bioavailability, passive sampling, risk assessment, and remediation. Designed for students and researchers of sediment quality, marine biologists, and professionals studying water quality and hydrology, this essential reference equips readers with the knowledge and strategies needed to protect aquatic resources and human uses of the aquatic environment, setting a new standard for sediment quality management worldwide.
With contributions from leading experts, it offers clear insights into the biological, chemical, and geophysical factors that influence sediment quality, and explores the latest advances in ecotoxicology, bioavailability, passive sampling, risk assessment, and remediation. Designed for students and researchers of sediment quality, marine biologists, and professionals studying water quality and hydrology, this essential reference equips readers with the knowledge and strategies needed to protect aquatic resources and human uses of the aquatic environment, setting a new standard for sediment quality management worldwide.
Key features
Key features
- Offers a comprehensive review and summary of sediment quality assessment and toxicity testing methods, including environmental chemistry, investigation techniques, data assessment approaches, exposure potential, and ecological toxicity
- Includes the latest techniques for managing sediments, with case studies on legacy contamination, integration of effect-based methods, sustainable use of dredged material, and the role of sediment quality in supporting marine protected areas and ecosystem services
- Provides in-depth discussions on new and emerging tools for sediment quality assessment, including passive sampling, advanced ecotoxicological methods, novel diagnostic tools, and eDNA-based monitoring of benthic communities
Readership
Readership
students and researchers of marine science, water and soil science
Table of contents
Table of contents
Part 1: Current Approaches for the Derivation of SQGs
1. Assessing Sediment Quality in Marine and Freshwater Environments, Yesterday and Today
2. The Role of Ecotoxicological Testing in Sediment Quality Assessment in Europe – Past, Presence, and Adaption to Future Challenges
3. Sediment Status in Europe: Frameworks, Standards and Approaches, Synthesis of Expanded Review
4. Assessment of Sediment Mobility, Transport, and Recovery Due to Physical Processes
5. Role of Sediment Risk Assessment in Evaluating Contaminated Sediments
6. Framework for Evaluating Human Health Consequences and Implications for Sediment Management
Part 2: New and Emerging Tools for Sediment Quality Assessment
7. Sediment Quality - New Ecotoxicological Approaches to Assess and Understand Processes from Microbiome to Behaviour
8. Advances in the Use of Passive Sampling for Managing Contaminated Sediments
9. Novel Diagnostic Tools in Sediment Quality Assessment
10. An Improved Technical Framework for Initial Screening of Sediment Quality Using Sedimentary Metals
11. Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOP) in Sediment Quality Assessments
12. Sediment Quality Assessment in South African Subtropical Ecosystems
13. Sediment eDNA-Based Monitoring of Benthic Communities: Benefits and Challenges
Part 3: Managing Sediments in the 21st Century
14. Pragmatic Approaches to Causality-Based Refined Screening at Legacy Contaminated Sediment Sites
15. Integrating Effect-Based Methods and Nontarget Analysis to Sediment Pollution Diagnosis and Ecological Risk Assessment
16. Review and Lessons Learned from Laboratory and In Situ Sediment Testing and the Future of Sediment Bioassays
17. Sediment Quality and Other Challenges for Achieving Sustainable Use of Dredged Material
18. Bioavailability Consideration in Sediment Management and Remediation
19. Sediment Quality Assessment as a Tool to Support Marine Protected Areas Management
20. Managing Sediment Quality to Support Stakeholder Objectives and Sustain Ecosystem Services
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Index
1. Assessing Sediment Quality in Marine and Freshwater Environments, Yesterday and Today
2. The Role of Ecotoxicological Testing in Sediment Quality Assessment in Europe – Past, Presence, and Adaption to Future Challenges
3. Sediment Status in Europe: Frameworks, Standards and Approaches, Synthesis of Expanded Review
4. Assessment of Sediment Mobility, Transport, and Recovery Due to Physical Processes
5. Role of Sediment Risk Assessment in Evaluating Contaminated Sediments
6. Framework for Evaluating Human Health Consequences and Implications for Sediment Management
Part 2: New and Emerging Tools for Sediment Quality Assessment
7. Sediment Quality - New Ecotoxicological Approaches to Assess and Understand Processes from Microbiome to Behaviour
8. Advances in the Use of Passive Sampling for Managing Contaminated Sediments
9. Novel Diagnostic Tools in Sediment Quality Assessment
10. An Improved Technical Framework for Initial Screening of Sediment Quality Using Sedimentary Metals
11. Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOP) in Sediment Quality Assessments
12. Sediment Quality Assessment in South African Subtropical Ecosystems
13. Sediment eDNA-Based Monitoring of Benthic Communities: Benefits and Challenges
Part 3: Managing Sediments in the 21st Century
14. Pragmatic Approaches to Causality-Based Refined Screening at Legacy Contaminated Sediment Sites
15. Integrating Effect-Based Methods and Nontarget Analysis to Sediment Pollution Diagnosis and Ecological Risk Assessment
16. Review and Lessons Learned from Laboratory and In Situ Sediment Testing and the Future of Sediment Bioassays
17. Sediment Quality and Other Challenges for Achieving Sustainable Use of Dredged Material
18. Bioavailability Consideration in Sediment Management and Remediation
19. Sediment Quality Assessment as a Tool to Support Marine Protected Areas Management
20. Managing Sediment Quality to Support Stakeholder Objectives and Sustain Ecosystem Services
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Index
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: November 1, 2026
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Sabine E. Apitz
Sabine E. Apitz is an oceanographer and environmental marine geochemist with 40 years of environmental experience in the academic, government, and business sectors. She specializes in developing various conceptual tools, including Ecosystem Services, Sustainability, and other ecosystems-based framings that link what we can measure as scientists to what we want to achieve in society to support environmental management, policy, and decision-making. With a BS in Chemistry (CSUF, 1983) and a PhD in Oceanography/Marine Geochemistry (UCSD/SIO, 1991), she worked for 10 years as a senior marine environmental scientist for the US Navy, advising and representing the US Government on dredged material assessment and management issues. For over 20 years, she was Director of SEA Environmental Decisions, a UK consultancy providing advice on ecosystems-based sediment, dredged material, catchment, and coastal environmental management and policy to international clients. She is the current Editor-In-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management.
Affiliations and expertise
SEA Environmental Decisions, Ltd, UKRW
Richard Wenning
Richard J. Wenning is an ecotoxicologist with 40 years of experience conducting environmental damage and risk assessments, evaluating ecosystem injuries, and restoring aquatic environments. He has been involved in the many facets of contaminated sediment management, including investigation, toxicity testing, remediation, beneficial reuse, and ecological recovery of freshwater and marine environments worldwide. Holding a BS in environmental science (DU, 1985) and an MS in ecotoxicology (Duke, 1987), he worked for three decades at two of the world’s leading international environmental risk consultancies, ChemRisk and ENVIRON, assessing injuries to natural resources caused by chemical contamination, industrial accidents, resource development projects, and natural disasters. He is a Principal Scientist at Wenning Environmental LLC, where he continues to advise clients on environmental damage, impact, and risk analysis related to climate change, pollution, and natural resource injuries. He served 20 years as founding Editor-In-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management.
Affiliations and expertise
Wenning Environmental LLC, USA