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Comparative environmental risk assessment

Title
Comparative environmental risk assessment / edited by C. Richard Cothern.
Publication
Boca Raton : Lewis Publishers, ©1993.

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Additional Authors
Cothern, C. Richard.
Description
317 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Subject
  • Environmental risk assessment > Congresses
  • Pollution
  • Risk
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Risk Factors
  • Risk
  • Pollution
  • Environmental risk assessment
  • Umweltverschmutzung
  • Gesundheitsgefährdung
  • Kongress
  • Umweltchemikalie
  • Poluicao ambiental
  • Saude ambiental
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • proceedings (reports)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • Based on a symposium held on Aug. 28, 1991 in New York City.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction and overview of difficulties encountered in developing comparative rankings of environmental problems / C. Richard Cothern -- Current concerns regarding the implementation of risk-based management: how real are they? / William V. Garetz -- Application of ecological knowledge to environmental problems: ecological risk assessment / David Policansky -- Threat of greenhouse warming / Rob Coppock -- Revising the risk assessment paradigm: limits on the quantitative ranking of environmental problems / Ellen K. Silbergeld -- It is possible to do quantitative assessment of relative risk / James D. Wilson -- Noncancer health endpoints: approaches to quantitative risk assessment / William Farland and Michael Dourson -- Gaps in knowledge in assessing the risk of cancer / Art Gregory -- Estimating viral disease risk from drinking water / Charles P. Gerba and Joan B. Rose -- Atmospheric nitrogen oxides: a bridesmaid revisited / John Bachmann -- Temporal variations in exposure data / Nancy K. Kim.
  • (cont) Integrated approach to risk characterization of multiple pathway chemical exposures / Christopher T. DeRosa [and others] -- Method for obtaining guidance for the combination of qualitative rankings by cancer and noncancer risks into a single, qualitative health risk ranking / Paul F. Deisler, Jr. -- Use of statistical insignificance in the formulation of risk-based standards for carcinogens / Roy E. Albert and Rakesh Shukla -- Possible carcinogenic hazards from natural and synthetic chemicals: setting priorities / Lois Swirsky [and others] -- Impact of data gaps in EPA's regional comparative risk projects / Rosalie R. Day -- Use of economic data and analysis in comparative risk projects: questions of policy and reliability / Palma Risler -- Role of evidential reason and epistemic discourse in establishing the risk of environmental carcinogens / Douglas Crawford-Brown and Jeffery Arnold -- How to move quickly to risk-based environmental management: a specific proposal / William V. Garetz.
ISBN
  • 0873716051
  • 9780873716055
LCCN
92002389
OCLC
  • ocm26161063
  • 26161063
  • SCSB-2025031
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library