Risk Assessment Methods: Approaches for Assessing Health and Environmental Risks

by Vincent T. Covello and M W Merkhoher

Book Overview

Much has already been written about risk assessment. Epidemiologists write books on how risk assessment is used to explore the factors that influence the distribution of disease in populations of people. Toxicologists write books on how risk assess­ ment involves exposing animals to risk agents and concluding from the results what risks people might experience if similarly exposed. Engineers write books on how risk assessment is utilized to estimate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306443821
• ISBN13: 9780306443824
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"