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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 heal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Improving Risk Analysis Approaches Used by the U.S. EPA (Autor), United States. Environmental Protection Agency (sponsoring body.), National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) (sponsoring body.), National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Institutional Means for Assessment of Risks to Public Health
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : The National Academies Press, [2009]
Colección:Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
Temas:
Environmental risk assessment > United States.
Technology > Risk assessment > United States.
Health risk assessment > United States.
Threshold limit values (Industrial toxicology)
Environnement > Évaluation du risque > États-Unis.
Technologie > Évaluation du risque > États-Unis.
Risques pour la santé > Évaluation > États-Unis.
Limites d'exposition professionnelle (Toxicologie)
Exposition (Toxicologie)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
Environmental risk assessment.
Health risk assessment.
Technology > Risk assessment.
Risk Assessment > methods
Environmental Pollutants > adverse effects
Maximum Allowable Concentration
Environmental Exposure
Government Agencies
Public Policy
United States.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Evolution and use of risk in the environmental protection agency: current practice and future prospects
  • The design of risk assessments
  • Uncertainty and variability: the recurring and recalcitrant elements of risk assessment
  • Toward a unified approach to dose-response assessment
  • Selection and use of defaults
  • Implementing cumulative risk assessment
  • Improving the utility of risk assessment
  • Toward improved risk-based decision-making.

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