Environmental Risk Assessment: Approaches, Experiences and Information Sources

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Last modified: Apr 13, 2011

Environmental Risk Assessment

Approaches, Experiences and Information Sources

This webtext is a summary of the foreseen EEA publication on
"Environmental Risk Assessment - approaches, experiences and information sources" by Robyn Fairman , Carl D.Mead and W. Peter Williams
at Monitoring and Assessment Research Centre, King's College, London

Projectleader at the EEA: Ingvar Andersson

For full version of this document please refer to the PDFs below (divided by chapters)

Contents

Part I	Approaches and Experiences
Preface	(download pdf - 730KB)
Section I	Concepts, Principles and Uses (download pdf - 6.16MB)
	Introduction
	Chapter 1 Introduction to risk assessment concepts
	Chapter 2 The use of risk assessment in environmental management
	Chapter 3 A typology of risk assessment and management methods
	Chapter 4 Overview of risk assessment methods
Section II	Techniques and Methods (download pdf - 18.47MB)
	Introduction
	Chapter 5 Health risk assessment
	Chapter 6 Ecological risk assessment
	Chapter 7 The application of environmental risk assessment in industry
Section III	Risk Management and New Directions (download pdf - 4.86MB)
	Introduction
	Chapter 8 Evaluation of risk and risk management
	Chapter 9 New Directions

Part II	Information Sources
Section 1	Organisations (download pdf - 3.63MB)
	Introduction
	Category 1 European Union
	Category 2 International
	Category 3 National
	Category 4 Government Departments and Agencies
Section 2	Databases (download pdf - 2.17MB)
	Introduction
	Category 1 Chemical/Toxicological/Ecotoxicological
	Category 2 Miscellaneous (Industrial/Biological etc..)
	Category 3 On-line Service and CD-ROM Suppliers
Section 3	Software Models (download pdf - 2.24MB)
	Introduction
	Category 1 Risk Assessment/Management
	Category 2 Exposure Assessment/Transport/Fate
	Category 3 Hazard Identification/Release Assessment
	Category 4 Directories of Software Products
Section 4	Publications (download pdf - 7.90MB)
	Introduction
	Part I: Books
	Category 1 Integrated Risk Assessment/Management/Analysis /General Chemical
	Category 2 Human Health/Toxicological
	Category 3 Ecological/Ecotoxicological/Environment
	Category 4 Biological/Food/Radiation/Biotechnology
	Category 5 Industrial Application
	Category 6 Contaminated Land/Waste
	Part II: Journals
	Category 1 Chemical/Toxicological/Health
	Category 2 Ecotoxicological/Biological
	Category 3 Industrial
	Category 4 General Environmental
	Part III: Bibliographic Databases
Section 5	Directories (download pdf - 1.26MB)
	Introduction
	Category 1 Consultants and Companies
	Category 2 Information
Section 6	World Wide Web Sites (download pdf - 1.69MB)
	Introduction
	Category 1 Organisations
	Category 2 Information/Networks
	Category 3 General Environmental Links for Information
Section 7	European Legislation (download pdf - 495KB)
	Introduction
	Legislation