Some of these are partly mentioned in some literature 1 broadly
exhibits the position of the baseline study and its eight groups in the
spectrum of subsequent stages of risk assessment. Some examples on
how various aspects of a holistic baseline study would link with various
subsequent parts of landfill risk assessment are indicated in Section 3.2.
It is emphasised that in this paper the term ‘baseline study’ is used (as a
fundamental supporting mechanism in its own right for carrying out
risk assessment), and this term should not be confused with the term
‘baseline risk assessment’. The paper regards baseline study specifically
for landfill risk assessment and Fig. 1 is only to put the discussion of
the paper in perspective. Therefore, implications and iterations of stages
of risk assessment (along with that of baseline study) and other such
details are not in the scope of the paper but for future research and
development.