Performing Ecological Risk Assessments

Author : Glenn W. Suter II,Rebecca A. Efroymson,Bradley E. Sample,Daniel S. Jones
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1420056697

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Ecological Risk Assessment for Contaminated Sites by Glenn W. Suter II,Rebecca A. Efroymson,Bradley E. Sample,Daniel S. Jones Pdf

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 chemical spills. Common hazardous waste sites include abandoned warehouses, manufacturing facilities, processing plants, and landfills. These sites poison the land and contaminate groundwater and drinking water. A sequel to the bestselling Ecological Risk Assessment, Ecological Risk Assessment for Contaminated Sites focuses on how to perform ecological risk assessments for Superfund sites and locations contaminated by improper disposal of wastes, or chemical spills. It integrates the authors' extensive experience in assessing ecological risks at U.S. government sites with techniques and examples from assessments performed by others. Conducting an ecological risk assessment on a contaminated site provides the information needed to make decisions concerning site remediation. The first rule of good risk assessment is "don't do anything stupid". With the practical preparation you get from Ecological Risk Assessment for Contaminated Sites you won't.

Author : Edward J. Calabrese,Linda A. Baldwin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993-08-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0873717031

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Performing Ecological Risk Assessments by Edward J. Calabrese,Linda A. Baldwin Pdf

Performing Ecological Risk Assessments is an extensive compilation of work discussing the components of an ecological risk assessment and how it compares with a human risk assessment. Topics considered include an introduction to environmental fate models and pharmacokinetic factors, documentation and critiques for the quantitative basis of uncertainty factors (UFs) in ecological risk assessment, a schematic scheme for deriving chemical-specific and species-specific maximum acceptable tissue concentration (MATCs), a discussion about sediment quality criteria (SQC), and discussions of methods for deriving multi-contaminant ecosystem MATCs. The book is an excellent reference for environmental toxicologists and chemists, ecological risk assessors, environmental consultants, and regulatory personnel.

Author : Glenn W. Suter II
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992-10-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0873718755

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Ecological Risk Assessment by Glenn W. Suter II Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Health risk assessment
ISBN : UOM:39015043186363

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EPA 630/R by Anonim Pdf

Author : Glenn W. Suter
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 1566706343

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Ecological Risk Assessment, Second Edition by Glenn W. Suter Pdf

The definitive reference in its field, Ecological Risk Assessment, Second Edition details the latest advances in science and practice. In the fourteen years since the publication of the best-selling first edition, ecological risk assessment (ERA) has moved from the margins into the spotlight. It is now commonly applied to the regulation of chemicals, the remediation of contaminated sites, the monitoring of importation of exotic organisms, the management of watersheds, and other environmental management issues. Delineating the processes for performing an ERA, the book begins by defining the field, then goes on to describe its relationship to other environmental assessment practices and its organizational framework. The book also includes a chapter on ecological epidemiology, which has previously been treated as a type of ERA, but is now recognized as a distinct practice in itself. It explores important concepts in the ERA process including probability, uncertainty, scale, mode of action and multiple causes. Reflecting changes in the field, the book’s scope has been broadened to include discussions of the application of ERA to agents other than chemical contaminants. The multitude of illustrative figures provides a flavor for the diverse practice of ERA. The author has re-organized the material, presenting a unitary process of ERA that is applicable to various problems, scales, and mandates. He keeps the emphasis squarely on providing clear, scientifically sound, and unbiased technical advice on the risks from chemicals and chemical mixtures.

Author : Sally L. Benjamin,David A. Belluck
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781420026276

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A Practical Guide to Understanding, Managing, and Reviewing Environmental Risk Assessment Reports by Sally L. Benjamin,David A. Belluck Pdf

A Practical Guide to Understanding, Managing and Reviewing Environmental Risk Assessment Reports provides team leaders and team members with a strategy for developing the elements of risk assessment into a readable and beneficial report. The authors believe that successful management of the risk assessment team is a key factor is quality repor

Author : Robert L. Graney
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000115031

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Aquatic Mesocosm Studies in Ecological Risk Assessment by Robert L. Graney Pdf

A Special Publication of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Aquatic Mesocosm Studies in Ecological Risk Assessment discusses the methods currently used for conducting simulated field studies and provides a series of case histories in which mesocosm type studies have been used to assess the impact of pesticides on aquatic ecosystems. Specific chapters address the dosing and exposure components of such studies and how they influence experimental design. Advantages and disadvantages of various statistical designs are addressed in detail. Regulatory aspects of the design and interpretation of these studies are also covered. The book will be a superb reference for aquatic biologists, ecologists, toxicologists, environmental toxicologists, environmental chemists, and regulatory personnel.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 0367802708

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Ecological Risk Assessment for Contaminated Sites by Anonim Pdf

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 chemical spills. Common hazardous waste sites include abandoned warehouses, manufacturing facilities, processing plants, and landfills. These sites poison the land and contaminate groundwater and drinking water.A sequel to the bestselling Ecological Risk Assessment, Ecological Risk Assessment for Contaminated Sites focuses on how to perform ecological risk assessments for Superfund sites and locations contaminated by improper disposal of wastes, or chemical spills. It integrates the authors' extensive experience in assessing ecological risks at U.S. government sites with techniques and examples from assessments performed by others. Conducting an ecological risk assessment on a contaminated site provides the information needed to make decisions concerning site remediation. The first rule of good risk assessment is "don't do anything stupid". With the practical preparation you get from Ecological Risk Assessment for Contaminated Sites you won't.

Author : Lawrence W. Barnthouse,Jr. Munns,Mary T. Sorensen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781420053333

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Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment by Lawrence W. Barnthouse,Jr. Munns,Mary T. Sorensen Pdf

Most ecological risk assessments consider the risk to individual organisms or organism-level attributes. From a management perspective, however, risks to population-level attributes and processes are often more relevant. Despite many published calls for population risk assessment and the abundance of available scientific research and technical tool

Author : Glenn W. Suter II
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781420012569

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Ecological Risk Assessment, Second Edition by Glenn W. Suter II Pdf

The definitive reference in its field, Ecological Risk Assessment, Second Edition details the latest advances in science and practice. In the fourteen years since the publication of the best-selling first edition, ecological risk assessment (ERA) has moved from the margins into the spotlight. It is now commonly applied to the regulation of chemicals, the remediation of contaminated sites, the monitoring of importation of exotic organisms, the management of watersheds, and other environmental management issues. Delineating the processes for performing an ERA, the book begins by defining the field, then goes on to describe its relationship to other environmental assessment practices and its organizational framework. The book also includes a chapter on ecological epidemiology, which has previously been treated as a type of ERA, but is now recognized as a distinct practice in itself. It explores important concepts in the ERA process including probability, uncertainty, scale, mode of action and multiple causes. Reflecting changes in the field, the book’s scope has been broadened to include discussions of the application of ERA to agents other than chemical contaminants. The multitude of illustrative figures provides a flavor for the diverse practice of ERA. The author has re-organized the material, presenting a unitary process of ERA that is applicable to various problems, scales, and mandates. He keeps the emphasis squarely on providing clear, scientifically sound, and unbiased technical advice on the risks from chemicals and chemical mixtures.

Author : Lawrence W. Barnthouse,Wayne R. Munns Jr.,Mary T. Sorensen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000687507

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Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment by Lawrence W. Barnthouse,Wayne R. Munns Jr.,Mary T. Sorensen Pdf

Most ecological risk assessments consider the risk to individual organisms or organism-level attributes. From a management perspective, however, risks to population-level attributes and processes are often more relevant. Despite many published calls for population risk assessment and the abundance of available scientific research and technical tool

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee on Risk Assessment Methodology
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309047869

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Issues in Risk Assessment by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee on Risk Assessment Methodology Pdf

The scientific basis, inference assumptions, regulatory uses, and research needs in risk assessment are considered in this two-part volume. The first part, Use of Maximum Tolerated Dose in Animal Bioassays for Carcinogenicity, focuses on whether the maximum tolerated dose should continue to be used in carcinogenesis bioassays. The committee considers several options for modifying current bioassay procedures. The second part, Two-Stage Models of Carcinogenesis, stems from efforts to identify improved means of cancer risk assessment that have resulted in the development of a mathematical dose-response model based on a paradigm for the biologic phenomena thought to be associated with carcinogenesis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Ecological Risk Assessment Guidelines Strategic Planning Workshop
ISBN : UCR:31210012668420

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Report on the Ecological Risk Assessment Guidelines Strategic Planning Workshop by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert A. Fjeld,Timothy A. DeVol,Nicole E. Martinez
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119675402

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Quantitative Environmental Risk Analysis for Human Health by Robert A. Fjeld,Timothy A. DeVol,Nicole E. Martinez Pdf

QUANTITATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ANALYSIS FOR HUMAN HEALTH An updated edition of the foundational guide to environmental risk analysis Environmental risk analysis is a systematic process essential for the evaluation, management, and communication of the human health risk posed by the release of contaminants to the environment. Performed correctly, risk analysis is an essential tool in the protection of the public from the health hazards posed by chemical and radioactive contaminants. Cultivating the quantitative skills required to perform risk analysis competently is a critical need. Quantitative Environmental Risk Analysis for Human Health meets this need with a thorough, comprehensive coverage of the fundamental knowledge necessary to assess environmental impacts on human health. It introduces readers to a robust methodology for analyzing environmental risk, as well as to the fundamental principles of uncertainty analysis and the pertinent environmental regulations. Now updated to reflect the latest research and new cutting-edge methodologies, this is an essential contribution to the practice of environmental risk analysis. Readers of the second edition of Quantitative Environmental Risk Analysis for Human Health will also find: Detailed treatment of source and release characterization, contaminant migration, exposure assessment, and more New coverage of computer-based analytical methods A new chapter of case studies providing actual, real-world examples of environmental risk assessments Quantitative Environmental Risk Analysis for Human Health is must-have for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in civil engineering, environmental engineering, and environmental science, as well as for risk analysis practitioners in industry, environmental consultants, and regulators.

Author : Robert A. Pastorok,Steven M. Bartell,Scott Ferson,Lev R. Ginzburg
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781420032321

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Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment by Robert A. Pastorok,Steven M. Bartell,Scott Ferson,Lev R. Ginzburg Pdf

Toxic chemicals can exert effects on all levels of the biological hierarchy, from cells to organs to organisms to populations to entire ecosystems. However, most risk assessment models express their results in terms of effects on individual organisms, without corresponding information on how populations, groups of species, or whole ecosystems may respond to chemical stressors. Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment: Chemical Effects on Populations, Ecosystems, and Landscapes takes a new approach by compiling and evaluating models that can be used in assessing risk at the population, ecosystem, and landscape levels. The authors give an overview of the current process of ecological risk assessment for toxic chemicals and of how modeling of populations, ecosystems, and landscapes could improve the status quo. They present a classification of ecological models and explain the differences between population, ecosystem, landscape, and toxicity-extrapolation models. The authors describe the model evaluation process and define evaluation criteria. Finally, the results of the model evaluations are presented in a concise format with recommendations on modeling approaches to use now and develop further. The authors present and evaluate various models on the basis of their realism and complexity, prediction of relevant assessment endpoints, treatment of uncertainty, regulatory acceptance, resource efficiency, and other criteria. They provide models that will improve the ecological relevance of risk assessments and make data collection more cost-effective. Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment serves as a reference for selecting and applying the best models when performing a risk assessment.