Handbook of Environmental Risk Assessment and Management - Rilegato

 
9780865427327: Handbook of Environmental Risk Assessment and Management
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ISBN 10: 0865427321 ISBN 13: 9780865427327
Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 1997

Sinossi

At the heart of environmental protection is risk assessment: the likelihood of pollution from accidents; the likelihood of problems from normal and abnormal operation of industrial processes; the likely impacts associated with new synthetic chemicals; and so on. Currently, risk assessment has been very much in the news--the risks from BSE and E. coli, and the public perception of risks from nuclear waste, etc. This new publication explains how scientific methodologies are used to assess risk from human activities and the resultant objects and wastes, on people and the environment. Understanding such risks supplies crucial information--to frame legislation, manage major habitats, businesses and industries, and create development programmes.


  • Unique in combining the science of risk assessment with the development of management strategies.
  • Covers science and social science (politics, economics, psychology) aspects.
  • Very timely - risk assessment lies at the heart of decision making in various topical environmental questions (BSE, Brent Spar, nuclear waste).

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Informazioni sull?autore

Peter P. Calow is the editor of Handbook of Environmental Risk Assessment and Management, published by Wiley.

Dalla quarta di copertina

At the heart of environmental protection is risk assessment: the likelihood of pollution from accidents; the likelihood of problems from normal and abnormal operation of industrial processes; the likely impacts associated with new synthetic chemicals; and so on. Currently, risk assessment has been very much in the news--the risks from BSE and E. coli, and the public perception of risks from nuclear waste, etc. This new publication explains how scientific methodologies are used to assess risk from human activities and the resultant objects and wastes, on people and the environment. Understanding such risks supplies crucial information--to frame legislation, manage major habitats, businesses and industries, and create development programmes.

Le informazioni nella sezione "Su questo libro" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.

Editore
Blackwell Pub
Data di pubblicazione
1997
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0865427321
ISBN 13 
9780865427327
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
590
Redattore
Calow Peter
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile