Ecological Risk Assessment

Barnthouse, Lawrence W., Lewis, Brian, Suter, Glenn W., II

ISBN 10: 0873718755 / ISBN 13: 9780873718752

Published by CRC Press LLC, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ecological Risk Assessment
• Publisher: CRC Press LLC
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873718755
• ISBN 13: 9780873718752
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 2.101 pounds

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Synopsis

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.

Review

"Glenn Suters book on ecological risk assessment is an exceptional contribution to this evolving field." - SETAC-Europe News Volume 4, Number 5 "Glenn Suter's book on ecological risk assessment is an exceptional contribution to this evolving field." - SETAC-Europe News Volume 4, Number 5