Ecological risk assessment
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Glenn W Suter; et al
- ناشر : Boca Raton : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2007
- شابک / ISBN : 9781566706346
Description
Defining the field -- Other types of assessment -- Ecological risk assessment frameworks -- Ecological epidemiology and causal analysis -- Variability, uncertainty, and probability -- Dimensions, scales, and levels of organization -- Modes and mechanisms of action -- Mixed and multiple agents -- Quality assurance -- Impetus and mandate -- Goals and objectives -- Management options -- Agents and sources -- Environmental description -- Exposure scenarios -- Assessment endpoints -- Conceptual models -- Analysis plans -- Source identification and characterization -- Sampling, analysis, and assays -- Mathematical models of chemical transport and fate -- Exposure to chemicals and other agents -- Exposure-response relationships -- Testing -- Biological surveys -- Organism-level extrapolation models -- Population modeling -- Ecosystem effects modeling -- Criteria and benchmarks -- Integrating exposure and exposure-response -- Screening characterization -- Definitive risk characterization by weighing the evidence -- Comparative risk characterization -- Characterizing variability, uncertainty, and incomplete knowledge -- Reporting and communicating ecological risks -- Decision making and ecological risks -- Integration of human health risk assessment -- Integration of risk, law, ethics, economics, and preferences -- Monitoring the results of risk management. Responsibility: editor and principal author, Glenn W. Suter II ; contributing authors, Lawrence W. Barnthouse ... [et al.].
A reference on ecological risk assessment (ERA). It details advances in science and practice since 1992. It provides advice on the risks from chemicals and chemical mixtures. It includes more discussion on applying ERA to stressors other than chemical contaminants.
