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Environmental and Health Risk Assessment and Management Principles and Practices /

This book is about the legal, economical, and practical assessment and management of risky activities arising from routine, catastrophic environmental and occupational exposures to hazardous agents. It begins where emission and exposure analysis ends by providing estimates or predictions of deleteri...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ricci, Paolo (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edition:1st ed. 2006.
Series:Environmental Pollution, 9
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Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Legal Principles, Uncertainty, and Variability in Risk Assessment and Management
  • Sustainability and Making Decisions Under Uncertainty
  • Risk, Cost, and Benefit Analysis (RCBA) in Risk Assessment and Management
  • Exposure-Response Models for Risk Assessment
  • Probabilistic Dose-Response Models and Concepts of Toxicology
  • Monte Carlo, Bootstraps and Other Methods to Quantify or Propagate Variability and Uncertainty
  • Causal Models: Influence Diagrams, Bayesian Networks, Classification and Regression Trees
  • Meta-Analysis, Pooling Sample Data, and Statistical Decision Rules
  • Contingency Tables in Risk Assessment and Management
  • Statistical Associations and Causation for Risk Assessment and Management
  • Risk Assessment Frameworks, Calculations of Risk and Toxicological Doses
  • Practical Analysis of Decisions for Risk Management.