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Environmental and Health Risk Assessment and Management Principles and Practices
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Environmental and Health Risk Assessment and Management [electronic resource] : Principles and Practices / by Paolo Ricci.
ISBN
9781402037764
Edition
1st ed. 2006.
Publication
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XX, 480 p.)
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Summary
This book is about the legal, economical, and practical assessment and management of risky activities arising from routine, catastrophic environmental and occupational exposures to hazardous agents. It begins where emission and exposure analysis ends by providing estimates or predictions of deleterious exposures. The book covers the essential aspects of environmental and health law, environmental economics, applied statistical and probabilistic methods, fundamental notions of applied epidemiology and toxicology, as well as decision analysis, to provide an integrated overview of how risk assessment and management combine to produce sound societal outcomes. Risk-based methods play a pivotal role in identifying and ranking alternative, sustainable choices, while accounting for uncertainty and variability. Specifically, most reductions in risks require a balancing of the costs and benefits associated with the action to reduce exposure to a hazard and thus risk. This balancing necessarily involves linking exposure and response through causation. Fundamentally, in risk assessment and management, science and law intersect through legal and scientific causation to the point that the failure to provide a sound causal argument can make an otherwise beneficial law or regulation invalid. The contents of the book have been written with the student’s need in mind: practice, applications and integration take precedence over theory, accomplishing these functions with unparalleled breadth and depth, to provide the methods and criteria for sound decision-making of risk or uncertainty. In addition, each chapter concludes with sample questions to illustrate concepts.
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Springer ENIN.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 28, 2019
Series
Environmental Pollution, 9
Contents
Legal Principles, Uncertainty, and Variability in Risk Assessment and Management
Sustainability and Making Decisions Under Uncertainty
Risk, Cost, and Benefit Analysis (RCBA) in Risk Assessment and Management
Exposure-Response Models for Risk Assessment
Probabilistic Dose-Response Models and Concepts of Toxicology
Monte Carlo, Bootstraps and Other Methods to Quantify or Propagate Variability and Uncertainty
Causal Models: Influence Diagrams, Bayesian Networks, Classification and Regression Trees
Meta-Analysis, Pooling Sample Data, and Statistical Decision Rules
Contingency Tables in Risk Assessment and Management
Statistical Associations and Causation for Risk Assessment and Management
Risk Assessment Frameworks, Calculations of Risk and Toxicological Doses
Practical Analysis of Decisions for Risk Management.
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