1st Edition

Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment Using the Relative Risk Model

Edited By Wayne G. Landis Copyright 2004
    324 Pages
    by CRC Press

    324 Pages 80 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    As debates over how relative risk can be used to shape landscape-scale environmental management intensify, Regional-Scale Risk Assessment demonstrates the capabilities of RRM using nine case studies in the Pacific Northwest, Pennsylvania, Brazil, and Tasmania. The authors use a process of ranking and filters to interrelate different kinds of risks and illustrates how these relative risks are defined, mapped, and analyzed to determine remediation and management priorities. This book provides detailed descriptions for each step of RRM-from the determination of assessment goals to documentation, evaluation, and communication with decision-makers-that can benefit practitioners in environmental risk assessment and related fields worldwide.

    Regional-Scale Risk Assessment

    Biography

    Wayne G. Landis