NRDAR Practice Exchange

Practice Issues

The NRDAR-related practice issues below are provided by way of example as issues of interest for discussion, analysis and exchange among NRDAR practitioners. The practice issues may be expanded and/or revised over time. Attention is drawn to the relevant practice issue-specific materials included on this page, such as bibliographies, selected documents, meeting presentations, and more.

Determining Natural Resource Injury

Scientifically Defensible Measures of Injury
Scientifically Defensible Linkages between Injuries and Service Losses
Best Practices for Determining Baseline

Quantifying Natural Resource Injury

Quantifying Service Losses
Scaling Service Losses

"Scaling Compensatory Restoration Actions -- Guidance Document of Natural Resource Damage Assessment Under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990" Prepared by NOAA

Best Practices For Habitat Equivalency Analysis (HEA) and Other Scaling Approaches

Cooperative Natural Resource Damage Assessment

Cooperative Natural Resource Damage Assessment Agreements
- "Cooperative Natural Resource Damage Assessment Agreement Guiding Principles and Sample Provisions" Prepared by the Ad-Hoc Industry Natural Resource Damage Group Industry/Trustee Standing Committee (May 2009)
  Appendix C
- Recommendations for Conducting Cooperative Natural Resource Damage Assessment Prepared by the West Coast Joint Assessment Team (April 2007)
Creating a Restoration Projects Database
- Global Restoration Network Database A Project of the Society for Ecological Restoration

Natural Resource and Service Restoration

Restoration/Remediation Coordination
The State of Restoration Science
Upfront Restoration (also termed Restoration Banking)

Stahl, Ralph, et al., "Prospective Environmental Restoration/Restoration Up Front: A Concept for an Incentive-Based Program to Increase Restoration Planning and Implementation in the United States" Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Vol. 4, Number 1, 2008

The Role of Natural Recovery

Media-Specific Practice Issues

Groundwater-Related Damage Assessment and Restoration

Lane, Diane, Karen Carney & David Chapman, "Identifying, Scaling, and Evaluating Groundwater Restoration Projects as Compensation for Groundwater Injuries" International Journal of Soil, Sediment and Water, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2009

CERCLA NRD-Related Sediment Issues

Other Practice Issues

Incorporating Uncertainty in Damage Assessment
Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) and Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Interface

Gala, William, et. al., “Ecological Risk Assessment and Natural Resource Damage Assessment: Synthesis of Assessment Procedures”, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Volume 5, Number 4, September 2009
Gouget, Ronald D. et al., “Effective Coordination and Cooperation Between Ecological Risk Assessment and Natural Resource Damage Assessment: A New Synthesis”, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Volume 5, Number 4, September 2009
Munns, Wayne R., et al., “Translating Ecological Risk to Ecosystem Service Loss”, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Volume 5, Number 4, September 2009
Stahl, Jr., Ralph G., et al., “The Nexus Between Ecological Risk Assessment and Natural Resource Damage Assessment under CERCLA: Introduction to the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Technical Workshop”, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Volume 5, Number 4, September 2009

NRDAR Mediation
Leveraging Cooperative Conservation in NRDAR Practice