This handbook brings together international contributors who cover the cross-disciplinary subject area of environmental risk assessment and management. Risk assessment is at the heart of environmental protection, for example, in assessing the likelihood of pollution from accidents, the likelihood of problems arising from the normal and abnormal operation of industrial processes, and in predicting the likely impacts associated with new synthetic chemicals. Risk assessment is, therefore, a prerequisite for good management, ...
Read More
This handbook brings together international contributors who cover the cross-disciplinary subject area of environmental risk assessment and management. Risk assessment is at the heart of environmental protection, for example, in assessing the likelihood of pollution from accidents, the likelihood of problems arising from the normal and abnormal operation of industrial processes, and in predicting the likely impacts associated with new synthetic chemicals. Risk assessment is, therefore, a prerequisite for good management, and is now increasingly being used in the development of control measures and legislation. Volume one considers the science behind risk assessment, the development of models, analysis of risk and the European and US legislation on the subject. Volume two looks at the management of these risks.
Read Less
