Setting Environmental Standards: The Statistical Approach to Handling Uncertainty and Variation - Hardcover

Barnett, V; O'Hagan, A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0412826208 ISBN 13: 9780412826207

Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 1997

Synopsis

Introducing a novel approach to setting environmental pollution standards that allow for proper treatment of uncertainty and variation, this book surveys the forms of standards and proposes a new kind of "statistically verifiable ideal standard."
Setting Environmental Standards includes:

a current analysis regarding the treatment of uncertainty and variation in environmental standard setting

a review of basic principles in standard setting, including costs, actions and effects, and benefits

examples where uncertainty and variation have been well-treated in current practice as well as examples where clear deficiencies are apparent

specific proposals for the future approach to setting environmental pollution standards - encompassing the anticipated elements of uncertainty and variability
The issues discussed serve statisticians as well as those persons involved with environmental standards. Scientists in agencies responsible for setting standards, in organizations advising such agencies or working in industries subject to these standards, will find Setting Environmental Standards an invaluable reference.

About this title

Review:

This book is a report prepared for and at the request of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. The objective is to provide a critical review of the importance of, and the current status of treatment of, uncertainty and variation in environmental standard-setting...The book has six chapters and reflects the constructive and positive outcomes of the workshop.
--T. Postelnicu, Zentralblatt Matt, Vol. 942
For environmental statisticians, the book will provide reinforcement of many of their own thoughts and initiatives, and, for other statisticians, it will provide an introduction to the topic in general...
--S. R. Esterby, Short Book Reviews, for ISI

About this edition

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0412826208
• ISBN 13: 9780412826207
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 124