Risk assessment and risk management.

Format:

Book

Series:

Issues in environmental science and technology ; 9.

Issues in environmental science and technology, 1350-7583 ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental risk assessment.

Risk management.

Environmental impact analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides a detailed and wide-ranging review of the many aspects of risk assessment and risk management which have excited so much debate and controversy in recent times.

Contents:

Risk Assessment And Risk Management

Contents

Isolation or Integration? The Relationship between Risk Assessment and Risk Management

1 Introduction

2 Historical Review

3 Risk Assessment in Siting Decisions

4 Risk Ranking and Site Prioritization in the Management of Contaminated Land

5 The Development of Operator and Pollution Risk Appraisal (OPRA)

6 Using Risk Assessment as a Means to Derive National Policy Objectives

7 Conclusions

The Use of Risk Assessment in Government

1 Risk and Government

2 Problems

3 Solutions

4 Adopting Quality Regulation

5 Establishing Networks for Achieving More Effective Liaison between Departments

6 Improving Systems for Communicating Risk Information to the Public

7 Strengthening the Links with Industry, Non-Governmental Organizations and Academic Institutions

8 Concluding Remarks

Pollution Risk Management

2 Potable Water Risk Management

3 General Environmental Risk Management

4 Major Accident Risk Management

5 The Future

Quantitative Cancer Risk Assessment-Pitfalls and Progress

2 Early History

3 Regulatory Practice

4 Major Criticisms and Controversies

5 Advances and New Approaches for Cancer Risk Assessment

6 Conclusions

7 Acknowledgements

Environmental Risk Assessment and Management of Chemicals

2 Detergent Surfactant Biodegradability

3 OECD/ISO/EU Test Methods

4 OECD/EU Environmental Risk Assessment

5 Environmental Risk Management

6 Conclusions and Summary

Assessment of Risks to Human Health from Landfilling of Household Wastes

2 Hazard Identification

3 Release and Transport of Contaminants

4 Exposure Assessment

5 Toxicity Assessment

6 Risk Estimation, Evaluation and Control

7 Case Study

8 Summary.

9 Acknowledgements

10 Appendix

Aquatic Risk Assessment and Risk Management for Pesticides

2 Effects Assessment

3 Exposure Assessment

4 Risk Characterization

Subject Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781591244226

1591244226

9781847551849

184755184X

OCLC:

923690004