Handbook of Environmental Risk Assessment and Management

by Peter P. Calow

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865427321
• ISBN13: 9780865427327
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 3.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.6" x 10.0"