Environmental Risk Assessment

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**Description**
This second edition is a rather concise 500-page description of environmental
risk assessment written from a toxicological perspective. Useful new features
include sections devoted to software and platforms as well as actual examples.


**Purpose**
The book aims to provide a reference to enable those interested in risk
assessment to gain confidence regarding their knowledge of the subject.

**Audience**
The audience for this book and its electronic enhancements includes both human
and wildlife risk assessors, risk communicators, and a broader range of public
health decision makers.

**Features**
The book chapters include introduction to risk assessment; perception, planning,
and scoping; risk analyst's toolbox; exposure assessment; hazard
characterization and dose response assessment; risk characterization; ecologic
risk assessment(s); bias, conflict of interest, ignorance, and uncertainty; and
emerging risks and final thoughts.

**Assessment**
Bridging the modern range of risk assessment guides and tutorials, this second
edition begins in the old days with the "Red Book," advances through Silver
and, most importantly, provides us with what the author describes as a
"comprehensive review of the field" for the next generation of risk assessors.
In the book's foreword, Dr. Richard A. Becker describes author Ted Simon's risk
communication and assessment skills in this edition as "stellar" in terms of
its explanations and illustrations. I concur.

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Weighted Numerical Score: 97 - 5 Stars!

-- John T. Pierce, MBBS(MD) PhD(Navy Environmental Health Center)