Handbook of Environmental Risk Assessment and Management
Book
Hardback
600 pages
978-0-86542-733-4 (ISBN)
Description
This handbook brings together international contributors who cover the cross-disciplinary subject area of environmental risk assessment and management. Risk assessment is at the heart of environmental protection, for example, in assessing the likelihood of pollution from accidents, the likelihood of problems arising from the normal and abnormal operation of industrial processes, and in predicting the likely impacts associated with new synthetic chemicals. Risk assessment is, therefore, a prerequisite for good management, and is now increasingly being used in the development of control measures and legislation. Volume one considers the science behind risk assessment, the development of models, analysis of risk and the European and US legislation on the subject. Volume two looks at the management of these risks.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Illustrations
71 line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-86542-733-4 (9780865427334)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
Part 1: principles; psychology of risk and uncertainty; economics of risk and uncertainty; assessing risks to humans from chemicals in the environment; assessing risks from chemicals to ecological systems; evaluating risks from accidents; assessing risks from GMOs to human health and ecosystems; assessing risk from biological introductions for ecological systems; retrospective analysis, ecological monitoring and epidemiology; retrospective analysis covering human exposure to environmental risks; application of risk assessment in policy and legislation - European Union; application of risk assessment in policy and legislation - North America. Part 2: principles; valuing risks; corporate chemical management - a risk-based approach; risk assessment and management in the nuclear industry; risk assessment and management for waste disposal; risk assessment and management in land uses and treatments; risk assessment and management in the exploitation of the seas; risk assessment and management for inland waters; environmental risk assessment in running a business; risk assessment and management in product design; environmental risk assessment in development programmes; liability, insurance and environmental risk; risk communication; experience with risk management and policy development - a summary chapter.