Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment
Using the Relative Risk Model
1st Edition
Published on 15. November 2004
324 pages
978-0-203-49835-4 (ISBN)
Description
As debates over how relative risk can be used to shape landscape-scale environmental management intensify, Regional-Scale Risk Assessment demonstrates the capabilities of RRM using nine case studies in the Pacific Northwest, Pennsylvania, Brazil, and Tasmania. The authors use a process of ranking and filters to interrelate different kinds of risks
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baton Rouge
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
80 s/w Abbildungen
80 b/w images
File size
62,41 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-203-49835-4 (9780203498354)
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Person
Wayne G. Landis, Director of Institute of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Huxely College of the Environment, Western Washington University, USA.
Content
Introduction, Introdcution to the Regional Risk Assessment Using the Relative Risk Model, Interactions among Risk Assessors, Decision Makers, and Stakeholders at the Regional Scale, Applicationof the Relative Risk Model to Fjord of Port Valdez, Alaska, Application of the Relative Risk Model to the Upper Willamette River and Lower McKenzie River, Oregon, Codorus Creek Watershed: A Regional Ecological Risk Assessment with Field Confirmation of the Risk Patterns, Cordorus creek: Use of the Relative Risk Model Ecological Risk Assessment as a Predictive Model for Decision Making, Deveoping a Regional Ecologoical Risk Assessment: A Case Study of a Tasmanian Agricultural Catchment, Establishing Conservation Priorities in a Rain Forest Reserve in Brazil: An Application of the Regional Risk Assessment Method, Using the Relative Risk Model for Regional-Scale Ecological Risk Assessment of the Squalicum Creek Watershed, Retrospective Regional Risk Assessment Predictions and the Application of a Monte Carol Analysis for the Decline of the Cherry Point Herring Stock, Ecological Risk Assessment Using the Relative Risk Model and Incorporating a Monte Carlo Uncertainty Analysis.
