Environmental risk assessment : a toxicological approach / by Ted Simon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simon, Ted, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

School of Medicine Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental risk assessment.

Environmental toxicology.

Environmental monitoring.

Risk assessment.

Environmental Monitoring.

Environmental Pollutants--toxicity.

Ecotoxicology.

Risk Assessment.

Medical Subjects:

Environmental Monitoring.

Environmental Pollutants--toxicity.

Ecotoxicology.

Risk Assessment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2020]

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Risk Assessment with a Nod to History

1.1 Risk Assessment: Does Consistency Achieve the Goal of Fairness?

1.1.1 Formaldehyde: A Cautionary Tale

1.1.2 A Future Look Back

1.2 Knowledge versus Fear: The Precautionary Principle and Unintended Consequences

1.3 The History of Environmental Risk Assessment in the United States

1.3.1 Risk Assessment under NEPA

1.3.2 The Events of the Late 1960s Facilitated the Passage of NEPA

1.4 How Much Risk Is Enough?

1.5 Risk Assessment Recommendations from the US National Academies of Sciences and Other Government Entities

1.5.1 The Environmental Risk Assessment Paradigm as Defined in Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process, the National Research Council's 1983 "Red Book"

1.5.2 The Clean Air Act (CAA), EPA's 1989 Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund (RAGS), and Other Guidelines

1.5.3 Science and Judgment in Risk Assessment: The National Research Council's 1994 "Blue Book."

1.5.3.1 EPA's Use of Defaults per the "Blue Book"

1.5.3.2 Validation of Models, Methods, and Data

1.5.3.3 Information and Data Needs

1.5.3.4 Accounting for Uncertainty

1.5.3.5 Understanding and Dealing with Variability

1.5.3.6 Aggregation of Risks

1.5.4 Framework for Environmental Risk Management: The 1997 Federal Commission Report

1.5.4.1 Bias and Scientific Misconduct: Another Cautionary Tale

1.5.4.2 Realism, Cost, and the Separation of Risk Assessment and Risk Management

1.5.4.3 EPA Addresses Variability and Uncertainty

1.5.4.4 Compounding Conservatism

1.5.5 Circular A-4 from the Office of Management and Budget

1.5.6 Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment: The National Research Council's 2009 "Silver Book"

1.5.6.1 Improvements in Problem Formulation

1.5.6.2 Replacing Defaults with Data

1.5.6.3 Controversies around "Silver Book" Recommendations for Dose-Response Assessment

1.5.7 World Health Organization International Programme on Chemical Safety (WHO-IPCS) Guidance Document on Evaluating and Expressing Uncertainty in Hazard Characterization

1.6 Risk Assessment as Practiced Internationally

1.6.1 Will Risk Assessment in China Point the Way for the Developing World?

1.6.2 Risk Assessment in the European Union

1.6.3 Risk Assessment in Canada

1.7 What Happens When Things Go Right

1.7.1 The Sangamo-Weston Superfund Site

1.7.2 Good Communication Is the Reason Things Go Right

1.8 Perception Is Reality: Risk Communication and Stakeholder Participation

1.8.1 Public Perception of Hexavalent Chromium: A Cautionary Tale

1.8.2 Why the Movie Erin Brockovitch Changed the Public's View of Chromium

1.9 Association versus Causation

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the School of Medicine Library Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Simon, Ted. Environmental risk assessment.

ISBN:

9780429286001

0429286007

9781000754377

1000754375

9780429169502

0429169507

9781000754117

1000754111

9781000754247

1000754243

Publisher Number:

99991524714

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