Risk Assessment: Logic and MeasurementCRC Press, 1 mai 1998 - 400 pages Accurate risk assessments are vital to the protection of human, environmental, and ecosystem health. Risk Assessment provides a current, comprehensive reference for researchers and professionals concerned with environmental contamination as well as its effects on humans and ecosystems. |
Table des matières
Logic and Measurement | 3 |
Historical Perspective on the Role of Exposure Assessment | 23 |
Application of Simulation Models to the Ecological | 45 |
Ecological Models and Ecological Risk Assessment | 69 |
Canonical Modeling as a Unifying Framework | 101 |
Estimating Human and Ecological Risks from | 143 |
Ecotoxicological Effects Extrapolation Models | 167 |
Dynamic Measures for Ecotoxicity | 187 |
Application of Community Level Toxicity Testing | 225 |
Landscape Perspectives on Ecological Risk Assessment | 255 |
Assessing Effect and No Effect with Equivalence Tests | 275 |
Time Space Variability and Uncertainty | 303 |
Deconvolution Can Reduce Uncertainty in Risk Analyses | 325 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
4-nonylphenol aldicarb approach aquatic assessment endpoints Bartell biological biomass biotic carbofuran characterization Chem chemical components compute concentration confidence interval contaminant Daphnia data sets DEB-based model deconvolution developed diazinon distribution diversity diversity indices dose dynamics Ecol ecological models ecological risk assessment ecosystem Ecotoxicology Environ environmental equations equivalence region estimate evaluate example exposure assessment extrapolation fathead minnow Figure fish framework function groups growth habitat hazard human health human risk hypothesis impact indices individuals Laboratory landscape linear logit mathematical measured ment methods mg/L monitoring multivariate NOEC nonparametric null hypothesis OECD organisms p-values parameters Periphyton pesticide pollutant population predict probability quantify quantitative radiation radionuclides relationship reproduction Research response risk analysis risk factors sample Savageau scales sensitivity simulation spatial species standard deviation statistical stressors structure studies Suter tion toxicity toxicity tests Toxicol Toxicology uncertainty values variables variance Voit Whicker µg/L