Experts working in diverse areas of coastal and estuarine risk assessment contributed to this first volume of the CRC Press Environmental Risk Series. Contributors were asked to address a comprehensive series of important topics including the regulatory context for coastal and estuarine risk assessment, emerging contaminants of concern, effects to marine mammals, bioavailability and exposure of marine organisms to inorganic and organic contaminants, and effects of contaminants on ecological entities ranging from biomolecules to landscapes
