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Environmental and health risk assessment and management : principles and practices / by Paolo F. Ricci.
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Title:Environmental and health risk assessment and management : principles and practices / by Paolo F. Ricci.
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Author/Creator:Ricci, Paolo F.
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Published/Created:Dordrecht : Springer, ©2006.
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: WA30 .R53 2006
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Health risk assessment.
Environmental health.
Hazardous substances--Risk assessment.
Hazardous substances--Health aspects.
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Description:xx, 478 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Series:Environmental pollution (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 9.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [447]-464) and index.
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ISBN:1402037759 (cased)
1402037767 (e-book)
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Contents:Ch. 1. Legal principles, uncertainty, and variability in risk assessment and management
Ch. 2. Sustainability and making decisions under uncertainty
Ch. 3. Risk, cost, and benefit analysis (RCBA) in risk assessment and management
Ch. 4. Exposure-response models for risk assessment
Ch. 5. Probabilistic dose-response models and concepts of toxicology
Ch. 6. Monte Carlo, bootstraps and other methods to quantify or propagate variability and uncertainty
Ch. 7. Causal models : influence diagrams, bayesian networks, classification and regression trees
Ch. 8. Meta-analysis, pooling sample data, and statistical decision rules
Ch. 9. Contingency tables in risk assessment and management
Ch. 10. Statistical associations and causation for risk assessment and management
Ch. 11. Risk assessment frameworks, calculations of risk and toxicological doses
Ch. 12. Practical analysis of decisions for risk management.