Abstract—Offshore macro-engineering project plays an
important role in promoting regional economic development.
Macro-engineering projects are marked by high investment,
long duration, adverse environmental condition, and high
difficulty in estimating impacts in ecology. As an important
component of environment risk assessment in the stage of
feasible study before construction, ecology risk assessment is
required in accordance with Chinese laws. However, critical
assessing frameworks have not been established yet in China.
Additionally, the shortage of characteristic data is another
dilemma in marine ecosystem research. Therefore, in this paper,
the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) framework
is adopted for ecological risk assessment and statistical method
is used to estimate the data distribution according to the finite
sample. Finally, a case study of Bohai Strait Channel project is
analyzed with USEPA framework.
Index Terms—Marco-engineering project, USEPA
framework, ecological risk assessment, offshore engineering.
The authors are with the Dalian University of Technology, Dalian,
116024 China (e-mail: zjguo@dlut.edu.cn, cindych1217@mail.dlut.edu.cn,
yun_peng@dlut.edu.cn, wangwenyuan@dlut.edu.cn).
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Cite:Zijian Guo, Yuexin Zhang, Yun Peng, and Wenyuan Wang, "Ecological Risk Assessment Approach of Offshore Macro-engineering Project Based on US Environmental Protection Agency Framework," Journal of Clean Energy Technologies vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 171-177, 2018.
