Handbook of Environmental Risk Assessment and

This handbook presents the basic principles of risk assessment in a user-friendly way, showing how scientific and anticipatory methodologies are used to assess risk for people and the environment. It addresses a broad range of questions, including the following: What is environmental risk assessment? How is it used in the development of environmental and human health protection policy and legislation? How is risk assessment used in business and in environmental management?

Peter P. Calow is the editor of Handbook of Environmental Risk Assessment and Management, published by Wiley.

List of Contributors

vii

(2)

Preface

ix

1 Environmental Risk Assessment and Management: the Whats, Whys and Hows?

1

(8)

Peter Calow

Part 1: Risk Assessment

9

(240)

2 Assessing Risks to Human Health from Chemicals in the Environment

9

(15)

Susan P. Felter

Michael L. Dourson

Jacqueline Patterson

3 Assessing Risks to Ecological Systems from Chemicals

24

(67)

Jerry C. Smrchek

Maurice G. Zeeman

4 Evaluation of the Likelihood of Major Accidents in Industrial Processes

91

(19)

John H. Gould

5 Assessing Risks to Ecosystems and Human Health from Genetically Modified Organisms

110

(37)

Ramon J. Seidler

Lidia S. Watrud

S. Elizabeth George

6 Assessing Risks to Ecological Systems from Biological Introductions (Excluding Genetically Modified Organisms)

147

(30)

Daniel Simberloff

Martin Alexander

7 Retrospective Assessment, Ecoepidemiology and Ecological Monitoring

177

(41)

Glenn W. Suter II

8 Epidemiology and Environmental Risk Assessment

218

(31)

Joseph V. Rodricks

Thomas A. Burke

Part 2: Risk Assessment in Legislation

249

(40)

9 Application of Risk Assessment in Policy and Legislation in the European Union and in the United Kingdom

249

(12)

Norman J. King

10 Application of Risk Assessment in Policy and Legislation in North America

261

(28)

Randall S. Wentsel

Part 3: Balancing Risks with Other Considerations

289

(90)

11 The Psychology of Risk and Uncertainty

289

(30)

Nick F. Pidgeon

Jane Beattie

12 The Economics of Risk

319

(26)

Chris V. Starmer

13 Valuing Risks

345

(34)

David Pearce

Part 4: Risk Management

379

(184)

14 Corporate Chemical Management: a Risk-Based Approach

379

(23)

Charles A. Pittinger

Christina E. Cowan

Peter Hindle

Tom C. J. Feijtel

15 Environmental Risk Assessment in Business

402

(15)

Michael Quint

16 Risk Assessment and Management for Waste Treatment and Disposal

417

(36)

Judith Petts

17 Risk Assessment and Management in the Exploitation of the Seas

453

(22)

John S. Gray

18 Risk Assessment and Management for Inland Waters

475

(31)

Stuart Hedgecott

Tony J. Dobbs

19 Environmental Risk Assessment in Development Programmes: the Experience of the World Bank

506

(14)

Olav Kjorven

20 Risk Communication

520

(22)

Vincent T. Covello

21 A Framework for Sustainable Product Development

542

(21)

James A. Fava

Frank J. Consoli

Kevin H. Reinert

Sven-Olof Ryding

Index

563

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