Includes bibliographical references and index.

Environmental risk assessment and management : the whats, whys and hows? / Peter Calow -- Assessing risks to human health from chemicals in the environment / Susan P. Felter, Michael L. Dourson and Jacqueline Patterson -- Assessing risks to ecological systems from chemicals / Jerry C. Smrchek and Maurice G. Zeeman -- Evaluation of the likelihood of major accidents in industrial processes / John H. Gould -- Assessing risks to ecosystems and human health from genetically modified organisms / Ramon J. Seidler, Lidia S. Watrud and S. Elizabeth George -- Assessing risks to ecological systems from biological introductions (excluding genetically modified organisms) / Daniel Simberloff and Martin Alexander -- Retrospective assessment, ecoepidemiology and ecological monitoring / Glenn W. Suter II -- Epidemiology and environmental risk assessment / Joseph V. Rodricks and Thomas A. Burke -- Application of risk assessment in policy and legislation in the European Union and in the United Kingdom / Norman J. King -- Application of risk assessment in policy and legislation in North America / Randall S. Wentsel -- The psychology of risk and uncertainty / Nick F. Pidgeon and Jane Beattie -- The economics of risk / Chris V. Starmer -- Valuing risks / David Pearce -- Corporate chemical management : a risk-based approach / Charles A. Pittinger [and others] -- Environmental risk assessment in business / Michael Quint -- Risk assessment and management for waste treatment and disposal / Judith Petts -- Risk assessment and management in the exploitation of the seas / John S. Gray -- Risk assessment and management for inland waters / Stuart Hedgecott and Tony J. Dobbs -- Environmental risk assessment in development programmes : the experience of the World Bank / Olav Kjorven -- Risk communication / Vincent T. Covello -- A framework for sustainable product development / James A. Fava [and others]. The Handbook of Environmental Risk Assessment and Management will cover the way that scientific methodologies are used to assess risks from human activities, and the resulting objects and wastes, for the environment and for people.