Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Pesticide Programs
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 1428904824
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2011-10-08
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0309212529
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sustainability is based on a simple and long-recognized factual premise: Everything that humans require for their survival and well-being depends, directly or indirectly, on the natural environment. The environment provides the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. Recognizing the importance of sustainability to its work, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been working to create programs and applications in a variety of areas to better incorporate sustainability into decision-making at the agency. To further strengthen the scientific basis for sustainability as it applies to human health and environmental protection, the EPA asked the National Research Council (NRC) to provide a framework for incorporating sustainability into the EPA's principles and decision-making. This framework, Sustainability and the U.S. EPA, provides recommendations for a sustainability approach that both incorporates and goes beyond an approach based on assessing and managing the risks posed by pollutants that has largely shaped environmental policy since the 1980s. Although risk-based methods have led to many successes and remain important tools, the report concludes that they are not adequate to address many of the complex problems that put current and future generations at risk, such as depletion of natural resources, climate change, and loss of biodiversity. Moreover, sophisticated tools are increasingly available to address cross-cutting, complex, and challenging issues that go beyond risk management. The report recommends that EPA formally adopt as its sustainability paradigm the widely used "three pillars" approach, which means considering the environmental, social, and economic impacts of an action or decision. Health should be expressly included in the "social" pillar. EPA should also articulate its vision for sustainability and develop a set of sustainability principles that would underlie all agency policies and programs.
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Ecological Processes and Effects Committee
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Risk Assessment Task Force
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Glenn W. Suter II
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 1992-10-23
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780873718752
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recently, environmental scientists have been required to perform a new type of assessment-ecological risk assessment. This is the first book that explains how to perform ecological risk assessments and gives assessors access to the full range of useful data, models, and conceptual approaches they need to perform an accurate assessment. It explains how ecological risk assessment relates to more familiar types of assessments. It also shows how to organize and conduct an ecological risk assessment, including defining the source, selecting endpoints, describing the relevant features of the receiving environment, estimating exposure, estimating effects, characterizing the risks, and interacting with the risk manager. Specific technical topics include finding and selecting toxicity data; statistical and mathematical models of effects on organisms, populations, and ecosystems; estimation of chemical fate parameters; modeling of chemical transport and fate; estimation of chemical uptake by organisms; and estimation, propagation, and presentation of uncertainty. Ecological Risk Assessment also covers conventional risk assessments, risk assessments for existing contamination, large scale problems, exotic organisms, and risk assessments based on environmental monitoring. Environmental assessors at regulatory agencies, consulting firms, industry, and government labs need this book for its approaches and methods for ecological risk assessment. Professors in ecology and other environmental sciences will find the book's practical preparation useful for classroom instruction. Environmental toxicologists and chemists will appreciate the discussion of the utility for risk assessment of particular toxicity tests and chemical determinations.