Recently, environmental scientists have been required to perform a new type of assessment-ecological risk assessment. This is the first book that explains how t
Most ecological risk assessments consider the risk to individual organisms or organism-level attributes. From a management perspective, however, risks to popula
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: Theory and Practice assembles the expertise of more than fifty authorities from fifteen different fields, forming a compre
Love Canal. Exxon Valdez. Times Beach. Sacramento River Spill. Amoco Cadiz. Seveso. Every area of the world has been affected by improper waste disposal and che
Addressing large-scale and comparative risks at the landscape level, this book focuses on assessments using the Relative Risk Model (RRM) pioneered over the las