Environmental Risk Assessment

Walter Glaesser

ISBN 10: 3540262490 / ISBN 13: 9783540262497

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Jan 2006, 2006

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores environmental and human risk problems caused by contamination, from the perspective of real world applications with quantitative procedures. It includes risk methods for environmental problems where data are sparse or fuzzy, and incorporates political, social and economic considerations in determining directions of remediation solutions for environmental contaminant problems. It highlights the impact of contaminants on human health - sometimes fatal - and the anthropogenic exacerbation of natural processes. 360 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Environmental Risk Assessment
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Jan 2006
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540262490
• ISBN 13: 9783540262497
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 303W x 215H x 25D millimeters 303 millimeters width by 215 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1204 grams

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Synopsis

The world is a dirty place and getting dirtier all the time. The reasons for this ever-increasing lack of cleanliness are not hard to find, being basically caused by the actions of the six billion people who inhabit the planet. The needs of the people for air, water, food, housing, clothing, heating, materials, oil, gas, minerals, metals, chemicals, and so forth have, over the centuries, given rise to a variety of environmental problems that have been exacerbated or been newly created by the industrialization of the world, the increase in population, and the increase in longevity of the population. The costs of cleaning even fractions of the known environmental problems are truly enormous, as detailed in the volume Environmental Risk Analysis (I. Lerche and E. Paleologos, 2001, McGraw-Hill). The chances of causing new environmental problems, and their associated costs of clean up, are equally challenging in terms of anthropogenic influences and also of the natural environmental problems that can be triggered by humanity. This volume discusses many examples of environmental problems that have occurred and that are still ongoing. The volume also considers the effects in terms of sickness and death of fractions of the population of the planet caused by such environmental problems.

Review

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"This book deals with environment and human risk problems caused by contamination that have occurred and that are still ongoing. ... For professionals in the field, seriously involved in remediation efforts, this volume provides a detailed set of procedures to analyse the scientific consequences of environmental problems. The volume should be of use to decision-makers in both government and private industry who are actively involved in balancing the social, economic, political, scientific, and health issues for the best benefits of the population." (International Journal of Environmental and Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 86, 2006)