Handbook of Environmental Risk Assessment and Management

by Calow, Peter P.

• ISBN13: 9780865427327
• ISBN10: 0865427321
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This handbook presents the basic principles of risk assessment in a user-friendly way, showing how scientific and anticipatory methodologies are used to assess risk for people and the environment. It addresses a broad range of questions, including the following: What is environmental risk assessment? How is it used in the development of environmental and human health protection policy and legislation? How is risk assessment used in business and in environmental management?

Author Biography

Peter P. Calow is the editor of Handbook of Environmental Risk Assessment and Management, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii	(2)
Preface	ix
1 Environmental Risk Assessment and Management: the Whats, Whys and Hows?	1	(8)
Peter Calow
Part 1: Risk Assessment	9	(240)
2 Assessing Risks to Human Health from Chemicals in the Environment	9	(15)
Susan P. Felter
Michael L. Dourson
Jacqueline Patterson
3 Assessing Risks to Ecological Systems from Chemicals	24	(67)
Jerry C. Smrchek
Maurice G. Zeeman
4 Evaluation of the Likelihood of Major Accidents in Industrial Processes	91	(19)
John H. Gould
5 Assessing Risks to Ecosystems and Human Health from Genetically Modified Organisms	110	(37)
Ramon J. Seidler
Lidia S. Watrud
S. Elizabeth George
6 Assessing Risks to Ecological Systems from Biological Introductions (Excluding Genetically Modified Organisms)	147	(30)
Daniel Simberloff
Martin Alexander
7 Retrospective Assessment, Ecoepidemiology and Ecological Monitoring	177	(41)
Glenn W. Suter II
8 Epidemiology and Environmental Risk Assessment	218	(31)
Joseph V. Rodricks
Thomas A. Burke
Part 2: Risk Assessment in Legislation	249	(40)
9 Application of Risk Assessment in Policy and Legislation in the European Union and in the United Kingdom	249	(12)
Norman J. King
10 Application of Risk Assessment in Policy and Legislation in North America	261	(28)
Randall S. Wentsel
Part 3: Balancing Risks with Other Considerations	289	(90)
11 The Psychology of Risk and Uncertainty	289	(30)
Nick F. Pidgeon
Jane Beattie
12 The Economics of Risk	319	(26)
Chris V. Starmer
13 Valuing Risks	345	(34)
David Pearce
Part 4: Risk Management	379	(184)
14 Corporate Chemical Management: a Risk-Based Approach	379	(23)
Charles A. Pittinger
Christina E. Cowan
Peter Hindle
Tom C. J. Feijtel
15 Environmental Risk Assessment in Business	402	(15)
Michael Quint
16 Risk Assessment and Management for Waste Treatment and Disposal	417	(36)
Judith Petts
17 Risk Assessment and Management in the Exploitation of the Seas	453	(22)
John S. Gray
18 Risk Assessment and Management for Inland Waters	475	(31)
Stuart Hedgecott
Tony J. Dobbs
19 Environmental Risk Assessment in Development Programmes: the Experience of the World Bank	506	(14)
Olav Kjorven
20 Risk Communication	520	(22)
Vincent T. Covello
21 A Framework for Sustainable Product Development	542	(21)
James A. Fava
Frank J. Consoli
Kevin H. Reinert
Sven-Olof Ryding
Index	563