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Author Ricci, Paolo F

Title Environmental and health risk assessment and management : principles and practices / by Paolo F. Ricci
Published Dordrecht : Springer, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 478 pages) : illustrations
Series Environmental pollution ; v. 9
Environmental pollution (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 9
Contents Legal Principles, Uncertainty, and Variability in Risk Assessment and Management; Sustainability and Making Decisions Under Uncertainty; Risk, Cost, and Benefit Analysis (RCBA) in Risk Assessment and Management; Exposure-Response Models for Risk Assessment; Probabilistic Dose-Response Models and Concepts of Toxicology; Monte Carlo, Bootstraps and Other Methods to Quantify or Propagate Variability and Uncertainty; Causal Models: Influence Diagrams, Bayesian Networks, Classification and Regression Trees; Meta-Analysis, Pooling Sample Data, and Statistical Decision Rules
Summary Talks about the legal, economical, and practical assessment and management of risky activities arising from routine, catastrophic environmental and occupational exposures to hazardous agents. This book is designed to provide an integrated overview of how risk assessment and management combine to produce sound societal outcomes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-464) and index
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In Springer e-books
Subject Hazardous substances -- Risk assessment.
Hazardous substances -- Health aspects.
Environmental health.
Health risk assessment.
Hazardous Substances
Risk Assessment -- statistics & numerical data
Health Status Indicators
Environmental Medicine
Cost-Benefit Analysis -- statistics & numerical data
Environmental Health
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Safety.
Environmental health.
Health risk assessment.
Hazardous substances -- Risk assessment.
Hazardous substances -- Health aspects.
Environnement.
Sciences de la terre.
Toxicologie.
Substances dangereuses.
Techniques d'évaluation.
Analyse des risques.
Principe de précaution.
Environmental health
Hazardous substances -- Health aspects
Hazardous substances -- Risk assessment
Health risk assessment
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781402037764
1402037767
1402037759
9781402037757
6610459851
9786610459858