Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
EPA-100-B.
Author: EPA 100-B
Author: Office of the science advisor staff paper risk assessment principles & practices.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428904816
Category : Environmental risk assessment
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Ecological Risk Assessment
Author: Glenn W. Suter IIPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780873718752
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Recently, environmental scientists have been required to perform a new type of assessment-ecological risk assessment. This is the first book that explains how to perform ecological risk assessments and gives assessors access to the full range of useful data, models, and conceptual approaches they need to perform an accurate assessment. It explains how ecological risk assessment relates to more familiar types of assessments. It also shows how to organize and conduct an ecological risk assessment, including defining the source, selecting endpoints, describing the relevant features of the receiving environment, estimating exposure, estimating effects, characterizing the risks, and interacting with the risk manager. Specific technical topics include finding and selecting toxicity data; statistical and mathematical models of effects on organisms, populations, and ecosystems; estimation of chemical fate parameters; modeling of chemical transport and fate; estimation of chemical uptake by organisms; and estimation, propagation, and presentation of uncertainty. Ecological Risk Assessment also covers conventional risk assessments, risk assessments for existing contamination, large scale problems, exotic organisms, and risk assessments based on environmental monitoring. Environmental assessors at regulatory agencies, consulting firms, industry, and government labs need this book for its approaches and methods for ecological risk assessment. Professors in ecology and other environmental sciences will find the book's practical preparation useful for classroom instruction. Environmental toxicologists and chemists will appreciate the discussion of the utility for risk assessment of particular toxicity tests and chemical determinations.
Science and Decisions
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309120462
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Risk assessment has become a dominant public policy tool for making choices, based on limited resources, to protect public health and the environment. It has been instrumental to the mission of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well as other federal agencies in evaluating public health concerns, informing regulatory and technological decisions, prioritizing research needs and funding, and in developing approaches for cost-benefit analysis. However, risk assessment is at a crossroads. Despite advances in the field, risk assessment faces a number of significant challenges including lengthy delays in making complex decisions; lack of data leading to significant uncertainty in risk assessments; and many chemicals in the marketplace that have not been evaluated and emerging agents requiring assessment. Science and Decisions makes practical scientific and technical recommendations to address these challenges. This book is a complement to the widely used 1983 National Academies book, Risk Assessment in the Federal Government (also known as the Red Book). The earlier book established a framework for the concepts and conduct of risk assessment that has been adopted by numerous expert committees, regulatory agencies, and public health institutions. The new book embeds these concepts within a broader framework for risk-based decision-making. Together, these are essential references for those working in the regulatory and public health fields.
EPA 540/9
Author: Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund: pt. A. Human health evaluation manual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hazardous substances
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
An Examination of EPA Risk Assessment Principles and Practices
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Risk Assessment Task ForcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental risk assessment
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by the Environmental Protection Agency
Author: United States. Office of Environmental InformationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Guidance for Controlling Asbestos-Containing Materials in Buildings
Author: Dale KeyesPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 078814314X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Provides guidance on controlling asbestos-containing materials (ACM) found in buildings. Provides a current summary of data on exposure to airborne asbestos; gives survey procedures for determining if ACM is present in buildings; explains how to establish a special operations and maintenance program in a building found to contain asbestos; reviews technical issues confronted when assessing the potential for exposure to airborne asbestos, in particular indoor settings; suggests a structured process for selecting a particular course of action, and much more. Commonly referred to as the Blue Book.