Abstract: Risk assessment and management approaches to environmental issues are increasingly being used at all levels of policy and regulation. In this chapter, the issues related to hazard and risk are explained. Risk, as applied to human health, environment, and industrial risks, is brought out. Environmental risk assessment includes steps of problem formulation, hazard identification, release assessment, exposure assessment, and consequence assessment. The detailed methods for risk monitoring and communication are discussed.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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