Environmental and Health Risk Assessment and Management: Principles and Practices (2006) (Environmental Pollution #9)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2006
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781402037764
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781402037757
- Publisher:
- Springer Netherlands
- Date of Addition:
- 02/18/21
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- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Science, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Medicine
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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