Web-based tool for Environmental Risk Assessment and Management

Although the international and EU legislation and guidance on risk assessment and management is well defined, a commonly agreed framework and procedures are still lacking. An attempt in this direction has been made within the STRiM project and the Web-based tool for Environmental Risk Assessment and Management has been developed to support the application of the proposed STRiM framework in the specific environmental case studies. This tool is used to describe the environmental case studies, perform qualitative risk assessment and risk management options appraisal, and provide automatically generated reports. It integrates a map server to handle GIS maps, Risk Assessment indicator database and document database. In this paper the emphasize is on the applied 3-tier architecture and the application of AJAX, Java Server Faces and Enterprise JavaBeans technologies in the implementation of the Web-based tool for Environmental Risk Assessment and Management. The tool has been successfully applied in four case studies covering different types of environmental risks (damage from flooding, forest damage from storms, water pollution and wetland loss from water abstraction).