A Review of Ecological Assessment Case Studies from a Risk Assessment Perspective
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Release : 1994
Category : Ecological risk assessment
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Release : 1994
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Author : U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher : BiblioGov
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 26,20 MB
Release : 2013-10
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ISBN : 9781294022855
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health and the environment is seen through each of its official publications. These publications outline new policies, detail problems with enforcing laws, document the need for new legislation, and describe new tactics to use to solve these issues. This collection of publications ranges from historic documents to reports released in the new millennium, and features works like: Bicycle for a Better Environment, Health Effects of Increasing Sulfur Oxides Emissions Draft, and Women and Environmental Health.
Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Risk Assessment Forum
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Risk assessment
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Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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File Size : 14,41 MB
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File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Environmental protection
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Author : Lawrence A. Kapustka
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0470593016
An important guide to assessing and managing the environment from a landscape perspective Ecological relationships are nested within the landscape. Identifying the relevant spatial and temporal scales is critical for an effective understanding of ecological functions that human societies depend upon. Moreover, human encroachment into natural areas, or changes in climate, can alter spatial relationships, which in turn can negatively affect vital plant and wildlife patterns—and weaken economic structures needed to sustain human societies. This book is the first to combine multiple disciplines into one cohesive strategy to study these crucial connections, and looks toward building a social paradigm that embraces the dynamics of ecological systems. This book: Integrates landscape ecology, environmental risk assessment, valuation of ecological goods and services, and environmental management decision processes into one single source Includes chapters on quantitative measures, Bayesian modeling,¿economic analysis, and sustainable landscapes Covers marine, forest, agricultural, and pharmaceutical risk assessment Has a chapter on predicting climate change risk to ecosystems Has a companion ftp site with color graphics, animations, and risk assessment tools With material that is accessible across all knowledge levels, Environmental Risk Assessment and Management from a Landscape Perspective moves beyond looking solely at chemical contaminants to diagnose environmental threats, and aims to accomplish practical risk assessment in a manner that supports long-term sustainable management.
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File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 1994
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Author : Lawrence W. Barnthouse
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 1420053337
Most ecological risk assessments consider the risk to individual organisms or organism-level attributes. From a management perspective, however, risks to population-level attributes and processes are often more relevant. Despite many published calls for population risk assessment and the abundance of available scientific research and technical tool
Author : Glenn W. Suter II
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 1992-10-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780873718752
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.
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Ecological risk assessment
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