Environmental management often aims at sustainability and at implementing goals such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Several of these goals rely upon healthy sediments, implying that contaminated sediments need to be addressed in environmental management. In Sweden, the SDGs and national environmental objectives are meant to be central in environmental management. However, in environmental risk assessment (ERA) for contaminated sediments, it is not clear to assessors or authorities in Sweden which goals to consider and how. In the present study, we explore which environmental goals ERAs of contaminated sediment should consider, according to representatives from Swedish regulatory and advisory authorities, and to what extent ERAs consider those goals in practice in Sweden. The identified goals indicated that protection of aquatic ecosystems and associated services is a main priority for the authorities. The ERAs analyzed showed that most identified goals were addressed, albeit not consistently. Furthermore, risk assessors seem to put less weight on ecological aspects than authorities do. This indicates that authorities need to stress the importance of environmental aspects and provide guidance on how to address them. Several environmental goals were found to be directly relevant to contaminated sediments and ERAs can contribute to their fulfillment, given that ERA is a basis for management decisions. However, practitioners need clearer guidance on which goals to address and how. Finally, there seems to be good potential for implementation of the SDGs in environmental management in Sweden, due to existing legislation based on sustainable development and well‐anchored national environmental objectives that overlap with the SDGs. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2019;00:1–12. © 2019 The Authors. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry (SETAC)

中文翻译：

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污染泥沙评估中解决的环境目标。

环境管理通常以可持续性为目标，并以实现联合国可持续发展目标（SDG）为目标。其中一些目标依赖健康的沉积物，这意味着受污染的沉积物需要在环境管理中加以解决。在瑞典，可持续发展目标和国家环境目标旨在成为环境管理的中心。但是，在对污染的沉积物进行环境风险评估（ERA）时，瑞典的评估人员或当局尚不清楚要考虑哪些目标以及如何考虑。在本研究中，我们根据瑞典监管和咨询机构的代表探讨了受污染沉积物的ERAs应该考虑哪些环境目标，以及在实践中ERA在多大程度上考虑了这些目标。确定的目标表明，保护水生生态系统和相关服务是当局的主要优先事项。经分析的ERA显示，即使不是始终如一地，大多数已确定的目标也得到解决。此外，风险评估者似乎对生态方面的重视程度低于主管部门。这表明当局需要强调环境方面的重要性，并就如何解决这些方面提供指导。已发现有几个环境目标与受污染的沉积物直接相关，并且由于ERA是管理决策的基础，因此ERA有助于实现其目标。但是，从业者需要更清晰的指导，以解决哪些目标以及如何实现。最后，在瑞典的环境管理中似乎有实施可持续发展目标的良好潜力，Integr环境评估管理报告2019; 00：1–12。©2019作者。Wiley Periodicals，Inc.代表环境毒理化学协会（SETAC）出版的《综合环境评估与管理》