Technical References

ABNT — Brazilian Standards

NBR 15495-1

Investigação, avaliação e intervenção de áreas contaminadas — Diretrizes gerais.

Used in: well compliance validation (W-C01 through W-C08)

NBR 13856

Procedimentos para amostragem de águas subterrâneas em poços de monitoramento.

Used in: sampling campaign design, well construction checks

CONAMA — National Environment Council (Brazil)

CONAMA 420/2009

Defines VR (Reference Value), VP (Prevention Value), and VI (Intervention Value) for soil and groundwater.

Used in: compliance dashboard, parameter threshold validation

CONAMA 396/2008

Classification of groundwater bodies and environmental guidelines.

Used in: water quality classification

EPA — United States Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Unified Guidance (UG-97)

Statistical methods for evaluating groundwater monitoring data at RCRA facilities.

Used in: background vs compliance analysis, P95 threshold calculation

EPA SW-846

Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste — Physical/Chemical Methods.

Used in: parameter definitions, analytical method references

ISO — International Organization for Standardization

Standard	Title	Usage
ISO 14001:2015	Environmental Management Systems	Governance framework alignment
ISO 14040:2006	Life Cycle Assessment — Principles and framework	EIS methodology foundation
ISO 14064-1:2018	Greenhouse gas inventories	GHG emission metrics
ISO/IEC 27001	Information Security Management	Data governance, audit trail

LGPD — Brazilian Data Protection Law

Lei 13.709/2018

Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais — Brazilian GDPR equivalent.

Used in: model governance (DD38/DAMA), data classification, audit trail consent

Kernel Density Estimation (Ridgeline Plot)

Silverman, B.W. (1986)

Density Estimation for Statistics and Data Analysis. Chapman & Hall.

Used in: ridgeline plot density estimation

Sheather, S.J. & Jones, M.C. (1991)

A reliable data-based bandwidth selection method for kernel density estimation. JRSS-B, 53(3), 683-690.

Used in: automatic bandwidth selection

Monte Carlo Simulation

Metropolis, N. & Ulam, S. (1949)

The Monte Carlo method. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 44(247), 335-341.

Used in: uncertainty propagation, risk assessment

Kriging (Geostatistics)

Krige, D.G. (1951)

A statistical approach to some basic mine valuation problems on the Witwatersrand. Journal of the Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa, 52(6), 119-139.

Used in: spatial interpolation, contaminant plume estimation

Benford's Law (Fraud Detection)

Benford, F. (1938)

The law of anomalous numbers. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 78(4), 551-572.

Used in: greenwashing detection, data integrity audit

Key Scientific Papers

Paper	Application
Mann, H.B. (1945) — Nonparametric tests against trend	Mann-Kendall trend analysis
Sen, P.K. (1968) — Estimates of the regression coefficient based on Kendall's tau	Sen's slope estimator
Jolliet et al. (2003) — IMPACT 2002+ LCIA methodology	Life cycle impact assessment
WRI/WBCSD — GHG Protocol Corporate Standard	Greenhouse gas accounting
Fruchterman, T.M.J. & Reingold, E.M. (1991) — Graph drawing by force-directed placement	Constellation HUD graph layout

Governance & Reporting Frameworks

Framework	Source	Usage
GRI Standards 2021	Global Reporting Initiative	ESG export vocabulary (GRI 303/304/306)
IFRS S1 / S2 (ISSB)	IFRS Foundation	ISSB-assisted DOCX template
DAMA-DMBOK v2	DAMA International	Data stewardship roles
DD38 / Marco Civil	Brazil Decreto 7.724/2012	Technical officer accountability
ALCOA++	FDA / WHO	Data integrity principles

References are provided for technical transparency and auditability. They do not constitute legal advice.