Environmental risk assessment : a toxicological approach

• Main Author: Simon, Ted (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2014]
• Subjects: Environmental risk assessment.; Environmental toxicology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781466598300
• Physical Description: 1 online resource : text file, PDF

"Risk assessment is of increasing importance as health and safety regulations grow and become more complicated. Focusing on environmental risk assessment, this book looks at various factors relating to exposure and toxicity, human health, and risk. The book is aimed at practitioners and student...

Table of Contents:

• chapter 1. Introduction to risk assessment with a nod to history
• chapter 2. Perception, planning and scoping, problem formulation, and hazard identification : all parts of risk assessment
• chapter 3. Exposure assessment
• chapter 4. Dose-response assessment
• chapter 5. Risk characterization
• chapter 6. Ecological risk assessment
• chapter 7. Future of risk assessment.