Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
Theory and Practice (Wiley Classics Library)
Published on 15. September 2015
1592 pages
978-1-119-19448-4 (ISBN)
Description
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: Theory and Practiceassembles the expertise of more than fifty authorities from fifteendifferent fields, forming a comprehensive reference and textbook onrisk assessment. Containing two dozen case studies of environmentalor human health risk assessments, the text not only presents thetheoretical underpinnings of the discipline, but also serves as acomplete handbook and "how-to" guide for individuals conducting orinterpreting risk assessments. In addition, more than 4,000published papers and books in the field are cited.
Editor Dennis Paustenbach has assembled chapters that presentthe most current methods for conducting hazard identification,dose-response and exposure assessment, and risk characterizationcomponents for risk assessments of any chemical hazard to humans orwildlife (fish, birds, and terrestrials). Topics addressed includehazards posed by:
* Air emissions
* Radiological hazards
* Contaminated soil and foods
* Agricultural hazards
* Occupational hazards
* Consumer products and water
* Hazardous waste sites
* Contaminated air and water
The bringing together of so many of the world's authorities onthese topics, plus the comprehensive nature of the text, promisesto make Human and Ecological Risk Assessment the textagainst which others will be measured in the coming years.
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DENNIS J. PAUSTENBACH, PhD, has held numerous leadership positions at two major consulting firms and was the founder of ChemRisk, the largest risk assessment consulting firm in the United States during the 1990s. He previously edited the popular The Risk Assessment of Human and Environmental Health Hazards: A Textbook of Case Studies and has worked on many high-profile environmental projects, including Times Beach, Love Canal, the New Jersey Meadowlands, and the Erin Brockovich case.
Content
FOREWORD (William Reilly).
FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION (William Ruckelshaus).
PREFACE (Dennis Paustenbach).
CONTRIBUTORS.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
SECTION A. THEORY:HUMAN HEALTH ASSESSMENT.
1. Primer on Human and Environmental Risk Assessment.
2. Hazard Identification.
3. Dose-Response Modeling for Cancer Risk Assessment.
4. Exposure Assessment.
5. Risk Characterization.
SECTION B. THEORY:ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT.
6. Ecological Risk Assessment:History and Fundamentals.
SECTION C. CASE STUDIES INVOLVING CONTAMINATED WATER.
7. Assessing the Risks Posed by Chromium in Groundwater:A CaseStudy Involving 300 Residents.
8. Estimating the Value of Research:Illustrative Calculation forIngested Inorganic Arsenic.
SECTION D. CASE STUDY INVOLVING CONTAMINATED SOILS.
9. Risk Assessment of Chromium-Contaminated Soils: Twelve Yearsof Research to Characterize the Health Hazards.
SECTION E. CHARACTERIZING EXPOSURE TO AIRCONTAMINANTS.
10. Quantification of Variability and Uncertainty: Case Study ofPower Plant Hazardous Air Pollutant Emissions.
11. Characteristic Time,Characteristic Travel Distance,andPopulation-Based Potential Dose in a Multimedia Environment: A CaseStudy.
SECTION F. EVALUATING OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS.
12. Methods for Setting Occupational Exposure Limits.
13. Worker Hazard Posed by Reentry Into Pesticide-TreatedFoliage: Reassessment of Reentry Levels/Intervals Using FoliarResidue Transfer -Percutaneous Absorption PBPK/PD Models, withEmphasis on Isofenphos and Parathion.
SECTION G. CASE STUDY INVOLVING EXPOSURE TORADIONUCLIDES.
14. Dose Reconstructions for Radionuclides and Chemical: CaseStudy Involving Federal Facilities at Oak Ridge,Tennessee.
SECTION H. EVALUATING RISK TO FOODS.
15. Transport of Persistent Organic Pollutants to AnimalProducts: Fundamental Principles and Application to Health RiskAssessment.
16. Estimating Dietary Exposure:Methods,Algorithms,and GeneralConsiderations.
17.Analysis of Possible Health Risks to Recreational Fishers Dueto Ingesting DDT and PCBs in Fish from Palos Verdes Shelf andCabrillo Pier.
SECTION I. ASSESSING RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH CONSUMEPRODUCTS.
18. Qualitative Health Risk Assessment of Natural Rubber Latexin Consumer Products.
SECTION J. CASE STUDIES IN ECOLOGICAL RISKASSESSMENT.
19. Determining Values:A Critical Step in Assessing EcologicalRisk.
20. Comparison of Aquatic Ecological Risk Assessments at aFormer Zinc Smelter and a Former Wood Preservative Site.
21. Integration of Risk Assessment and Natural Resource DamageAssessment: Case Study of Lavaca Bay.
SECTION K. ASSESSING RISKS TO BIRDS.
22. Using Probabilistic Risk Assessment Methods To Predict E¤ects of Pesticides on Aquatic Systems and Waterfowl That UseThem.
23. Methodology for Assessing Risk to Birds FollowingApplication of Sprayable Pesticide to Citrus:Case Study InvolvingChlorpyrifos.
24. Using Ecological Risk Assessment to Evaluate Potential RisksPosed by Chemicals to Birds.
SECTION L. RISK ASSESSMENT AND LIFE-CYCLE ANALYSES.
25. Life-Cycle Impact Analysis:A Challenge for RiskAnalysts.
SECTION M. RISK COMMUNICATION AND RISK MANAGEMENT.
26. Risk Assessment in Its Social Context.
27. Trust, Emotion, Sex, Politics,and Science: Surveying theRisk-Assessment Battlefield.
28. Democratization of Risk Analysis.
29. Misconceptions About the Causes of Cancer.
SECTION N. EVOLVING ISSUES.
30. Children 's Health and Environmental Exposure to Chemicals:Implications for Risk Assessment and Public Health Policy.
31. Cost -Benefit Analysis.
32. Precaution in a Multirisk World.
INDEX.
