New Risks: Issues and Management (Advances in Risk Analysis, 6, Band 6) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0306435373 ISBN 13: 9780306435379

Verlag: Springer, 1990

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This volume contains the proceedings of the 1986 annual meeting and conference of the Society for Risk Analysis. It provides a detailed view of both mature disciplines and emerging areas within the fields of health, safety, and environmental risk analysis as they existed in 1986. In selecting and organizing topics for this conference, we sought both (i) to identify and include new ideas and application areas that would be of lasting interest to risk analysts and to users of risk analysis results, and (ii) to include innovative methods and applications in established areas of risk analysis. In the three years since the conference, many of the topics presented there for the first time to a broad risk analysis audience have become well developed-and sometimes hotly debated-areas of applied risk research. Several, such as the public health hazards from indoor air pollutants, radon in the home, high-voltage electric fields, and the AIDS epidemic, have been the subjects of headlines since 1986. Older areas, such as hazardous waste site ranking and remediation, air emissions dispersion modeling and exposure assessment, transportation safety, seismic and nuclear risk assessment, and occupational safety in the chemical industry, have continued to receive new treatments and to benefit from advances in quantitative risk assessment methods, as documented in the theoretical and methodological papers in this volume. A theme of the meeting was the importance of new technologies and the new and uncertain risks that they create.

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Paolo F. Ricci, PhD, LLM, is a professor at the EU's Erasmus Mundus Programs in Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Previously he was a professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; professor at Holy Names University in Oakland, California, USA; visiting professor at Xiamen University in China; and, professor at University of Bologna in Italy. For more than 30 years, Dr. Ricci -- a senior Fulbright scholar (specialist, 2010-2015) and appointed peer reviewer for Fulbright Specialists selection (2013-2014) -- has led qualitative and quantitative analyses in public health and epidemiology and conducted experimental work in, among other countries, the United States, Canada, Italy, Australia, France, Vietnam, China, the Ivory Coast, and the European Union. He was the head of the Environmental Technologies Clearinghouse of the IEA/OECD (with full diplomatic status) and has served as a peer reviewer of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) activities regarding human health risks from past nuclear weapons tests at the Nevada Test Site. Until 2014, Dr. Ricci was an associate editor of the journal Environment International for more than 15 years.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0306435373
• ISBN 13: 9780306435379
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 728
• Herausgeber: Cox Louis A., Ricci Paolo F.
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