Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office (Cincinnati, Ohio)Publisher:
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Category : Hazardous substances
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Methodology for Assessing Health Risks Associated with Indirect Exposure to Combustor Emissions
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office (Cincinnati, Ohio)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hazardous substances
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Waste Incineration and Public Health
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030906371X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Incineration has been used widely for waste disposal, including household, hazardous, and medical wasteâ€"but there is increasing public concern over the benefits of combusting the waste versus the health risk from pollutants emitted during combustion. Waste Incineration and Public Health informs the emerging debate with the most up-to-date information available on incineration, pollution, and human healthâ€"along with expert conclusions and recommendations for further research and improvement of such areas as risk communication. The committee provides details on: Processes involved in incineration and how contaminants are released. Environmental dynamics of contaminants and routes of human exposure. Tools and approaches for assessing possible human health effects. Scientific concerns pertinent to future regulatory actions. The book also examines some of the social, psychological, and economic factors that affect the communities where incineration takes place and addresses the problem of uncertainty and variation in predicting the health effects of incineration processes.
Health Effects Assessment Summary Tables
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Health risk assessment
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Science and Judgment in Risk Assessment
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030904894X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
The public depends on competent risk assessment from the federal government and the scientific community to grapple with the threat of pollution. When risk reports turn out to be overblownâ€"or when risks are overlookedâ€"public skepticism abounds. This comprehensive and readable book explores how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can improve its risk assessment practices, with a focus on implementation of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. With a wealth of detailed information, pertinent examples, and revealing analysis, the volume explores the "default option" and other basic concepts. It offers two views of EPA operations: The first examines how EPA currently assesses exposure to hazardous air pollutants, evaluates the toxicity of a substance, and characterizes the risk to the public. The second, more holistic, view explores how EPA can improve in several critical areas of risk assessment by focusing on cross-cutting themes and incorporating more scientific judgment. This comprehensive volume will be important to the EPA and other agencies, risk managers, environmental advocates, scientists, faculty, students, and concerned individuals.
Methodology for deriving ambient water quality criteria for the protection of human health (2000) : final.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428901965
Category : Water quality
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309068754
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Since Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Gulf War veterans have expressed concerns about health effects that could be associated with their deployment and service during the war. Although similar concerns were raised after other military operations, the Gulf War deployment focused national attention on the potential, but uncertain, relationship between the presence of chemical and biological (CB) agents and other harmful agents in theater and health symptoms reported by military personnel. Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces which is one of the four two-year studies, examines the detection and tracking of exposures of deployed personnel to multiple harmful agents.
Methodology for Deriving Ambient Water Quality Criteria for the Protection of Human Health (2000)
Author: Exposure analysis for dioxins, dibenzofurans, and coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls in sewage sludge techinical background document.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428905189
Category : Sewage disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Mercury Study Report to Congress: Executive summary
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Category : Factory and trade waste
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment
Author: F. James DwyerPublisher: ASTM International
ISBN: 0803124740
Category : Environmental health
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description