The Consortium has years of experience in the development and application of risk and impact assessment procedures using the following methods:

Human Health Risk Assessment

• Application of the site-specific Human Health Risk Assessment procedure for contaminated sites (soil, freshwater and groundwater) in compliance with Italian guidelines (APAT, 2008);
• Development and application of Regional Risk Assessment procedures for the prioritisation of contaminated sites (vulnerability and impact assessment);
• Integration of impact assessment with socio-economic analysis in order to support the selection of the best remediation technologies for the site in question.

Ecological Risk Assessment

• Development and application of site-specific Ecological Risk Assessment procedures for contaminated sites (terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems) pursuant to applicable European Directives
• Development and application of Ecological Risk Assessment procedures for nanoparticles
• Integration of impact assessment with socio-economic analysis in order to prioritise hot spots on river basin scale

Environmental modelling

• Development, adaptation and application of bioaccumulation models for both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
• Development and application of hydro-geological models and pollutant fate and transport models
• Application of geostatistical methodologies to analyse the 2- and 3-D spatial distribution of contaminants

Environmental assessment and management tools

• Application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology to assess the overall potential environmental impacts of a product system through its entire life cycle (i.e. from cradle to grave)
• Environmental assessment of projects, plans and programmes

Advisory services for businesses, helping them to effectively manage and comply with current and future environmental legislation

• REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals), the new legislation concerning the production, use and management of chemicals in Europe. Support on regulatory interpretation, the pre-registration phase, supply chain communication, third party auditing, business impact assessment and on Substance Information Exchange Forum (SIEF) management.

Most of the aforementioned methodologies were developed by the Consortium and validated through application to various case studies within national and international research projects.