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Ecological risk assessment [electronic resource] / editor and principal author, Glenn W. Suter II ; contributing authors, Lawrence W. Barnthouse [and others]

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Reflecting on the evolution of ERA and changes in the field over the past 25 years, this book is, without question, the definitive reference on the current practice of ERA ... Throughout the book, Suter has succeeded in maintaining the emphasis squarely on providing clear, scientifically sound, and...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Suter, Glenn W., II
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, ©2007.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Ecological risk assessment.
Table of Contents:
  • Defining the field
  • Other types of assessment
  • Ecological risk assessment frameworks
  • Ecological epidemiology and causal analysis
  • Variability, uncertainty, and probability
  • Dimensions, scales, and levels of organization
  • Modes and mechanisms of action
  • Mixed and multiple agents
  • Quality assurance
  • Impetus and mandate
  • Goals and objectives
  • Management options
  • Agents and sources
  • Environmental description
  • Exposure scenarios
  • Assessment endpoints
  • Conceptual models
  • Analysis plans
  • Source identification and characterization
  • Sampling, analysis, and assays
  • Mathematical models of chemical transport and fate
  • Exposure to chemicals and other agents
  • Exposure-response relationships
  • Testing
  • Biological surveys
  • Organism-level extrapolation models
  • Population modeling
  • Ecosystem effects modeling
  • Criteria and benchmarks
  • Integrating exposure and exposure-response
  • Screening characterization
  • Definitive risk characterization by weighing the evidence
  • Comparative risk characterization
  • Characterizing variability, uncertainty, and incomplete knowledge
  • Reporting and communicating ecological risks
  • Decision making and ecological risks
  • Integration of human health risk assessment
  • Integration of risk, law, ethics, economics, and preferences
  • Monitoring the results of risk management.

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