Environmental and Health Risk Assessment and Management: Principles and Practices (Environmental Pollution, 9)

Paolo Ricci

ISBN 10: 1402037759 / ISBN 13: 9781402037757

Verlag: Springer-Verlag Publishing, 2005

Beschreibung

Very Good++; Hardcover; Close to new condition; Covers are still glossy with "straight" edge-corners; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are bright and unmarked; Binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be stored and delivered in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); Red and blue covers with title in white lettering; 2005, Springer-Verlag Publishing; 480 pages; "Environmental and Health Risk Assessment and Management: Principles and Practices (Environmental Pollution)," by Paolo Ricci.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers SKU-U77PA00312018

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Environmental and Health Risk Assessment and Management: Principles and Practices (Environmental Pollution, 9)
• Verlag: Springer-Verlag Publishing
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1402037759
• ISBN-13: 9781402037757
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

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 includes a discussion of aspects of US and European Union law concerning risky activities, and then develops the economic analyses that are relevant to implementing choices within a supply and demand framework. The book also discusses exposure-response and time-series models used in assessing air and water pollution, as well as probabilistic cancer models, including toxicological compartmental, pharmaco-kinetic models and epidemiological relative risks and odds ratios-based models. Statistical methods to measure agreement, correlation and discordance are also developed. The methods and criteria of decision-analysis, including several measures of value of information (VOI) conclude the expositions. This book is an excellent text for students studying risk assessment and management.

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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.