Environmental risk assessment : a toxicological approach

"This book explains how environmental risk assessment in particular is of increasing importance as a means of seeking to address the potential effects of chemicals in the environment in both the developed and developing world"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Simon, Ted (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2020]
EditionSecond edition.
Subjects
Environmental risk assessment.
Environmental toxicology.
Environmental monitoring.
Risk assessment.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780429286001
0429286007
9781000754377
1000754375
9780429169502
0429169507
9781000754117
1000754111
9781000754247
1000754243
9780367250973
0367250977
Physical Description1 online resource

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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: An Introduction to Risk Assessment with a Nod to History
  • 1.1 Risk Assessment: Does Consistency Achieve the Goal of Fairness?
  • 1.1.1 Formaldehyde: A Cautionary Tale
  • 1.1.2 A Future Look Back
  • 1.2 Knowledge versus Fear: The Precautionary Principle and Unintended Consequences
  • 1.3 The History of Environmental Risk Assessment in the United States
  • 1.3.1 Risk Assessment under NEPA
  • 1.3.2 The Events of the Late 1960s Facilitated the Passage of NEPA
  • 1.4 How Much Risk Is Enough?
  • 1.5 Risk Assessment Recommendations from the US National Academies of Sciences and Other Government Entities
  • 1.5.1 The Environmental Risk Assessment Paradigm as Defined in Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process, the National Research Council's 1983 "Red Book"
  • 1.5.2 The Clean Air Act (CAA), EPA's 1989 Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund (RAGS), and Other Guidelines
  • 1.5.3 Science and Judgment in Risk Assessment: The National Research Council's 1994 "Blue Book."
  • 1.5.3.1 EPA's Use of Defaults per the "Blue Book"
  • 1.5.3.2 Validation of Models, Methods, and Data
  • 1.5.3.3 Information and Data Needs
  • 1.5.3.4 Accounting for Uncertainty
  • 1.5.3.5 Understanding and Dealing with Variability
  • 1.5.3.6 Aggregation of Risks
  • 1.5.4 Framework for Environmental Risk Management: The 1997 Federal Commission Report
  • 1.5.4.1 Bias and Scientific Misconduct: Another Cautionary Tale
  • 1.5.4.2 Realism, Cost, and the Separation of Risk Assessment and Risk Management
  • 1.5.4.3 EPA Addresses Variability and Uncertainty
  • 1.5.4.4 Compounding Conservatism
  • 1.5.5 Circular A-4 from the Office of Management and Budget
  • 1.5.6 Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment: The National Research Council's 2009 "Silver Book"
  • 1.5.6.1 Improvements in Problem Formulation
  • 1.5.6.2 Replacing Defaults with Data
  • 1.5.6.3 Controversies around "Silver Book" Recommendations for Dose-Response Assessment
  • 1.5.7 World Health Organization International Programme on Chemical Safety (WHO-IPCS) Guidance Document on Evaluating and Expressing Uncertainty in Hazard Characterization
  • 1.6 Risk Assessment as Practiced Internationally
  • 1.6.1 Will Risk Assessment in China Point the Way for the Developing World?
  • 1.6.2 Risk Assessment in the European Union
  • 1.6.3 Risk Assessment in Canada
  • 1.7 What Happens When Things Go Right
  • 1.7.1 The Sangamo-Weston Superfund Site
  • 1.7.2 Good Communication Is the Reason Things Go Right
  • 1.8 Perception Is Reality: Risk Communication and Stakeholder Participation
  • 1.8.1 Public Perception of Hexavalent Chromium: A Cautionary Tale
  • 1.8.2 Why the Movie Erin Brockovitch Changed the Public's View of Chromium
  • 1.9 Association versus Causation

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