Pollution Risk Assessment and Management

This book will for the first time bring together the basic principles of integrated pollution control while also considering wider issues such as pollution, risk management, and control, and their links with sustainable development.

ISBN	0471972975	Volumes	001
ISBN13	9780471972976 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	810
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd	Published in	Chichester
Imprint	John Wiley & Sons Ltd	Series editor	Weeks, Jason M. (Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Monks Wood), et al
Format	Hardback	Series title	Ecological & Environmental Toxicology Series
Publication date	12 Aug 1998	Height (mm)	235
Library of Congress	TD193.5.P6	Width (mm)	156
DEWEY	363.73	Spine width (mm)	32
DEWEY edition	DC21	Academic level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly
Pages	478

	List of contributors
	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
1	Perspectives on Pollution Risk by Peter E. T. Douben	1
2	Industry's Contribution to Sustainable Development by John Murlis	21
3	The Basis for Industrial Process Regulation by Peter E. T. Douben and Mohamed A. Serageldin	49
4	Non-standard Emissions by Andrew A. Meharg	93
5	Air Dispersion Modelling by David Carruthers	115
6	Pollutant Dispersion Modelling in Water by Gareth Llewellyn	133
7	Contaminant Displacement Modelling in Soil and Groundwater by Sjoerd E. A. T. M. van der Zee	159
8	Environmental Standards for Human Health Protection by Anne L. McDonald and John J. Vandenberg	185
9	Risk Assessment for Human Health Protection - Applications to Environmental Mixtures by Rita Schoeny and Pavel Muller and Judy L. Mumford	205
10	Standards for Environmental Protection by Paul Whitehouse and Nick Cartwright	235
11	Ecological Risk Assessment: Looking In, Looking Out by Wayne G. Landis and Dwayne R. J. Moore and Susan B. Norton	273
12	Toxicity Assessment: Its Role in Regulation by Jim Wharfe and Margarete Heber	311
13	Soil: The Forgotten Medium by Joke Van Wensem	331
14	Biomarkers for Monitoring and Measuring Effects by David B. Peakall and Anne Fairbrother	351
15	Integration of Environmental and Economic Assessments by Ronan Palmer	377
16	Legal and Political Considerations by Turner T. Smith, Jr. and Richard Macrory	399
17	The Role of Risk Perception for Risk Management by Ortwin Renn	429
	Index	451

."..well presented, readable and comprehensible for the non-specialist and a valuable and contemporary source of information for all those involved in the science of ecological and environmental toxicology." ("Environmental Scientist", Vol. 8, No. 1, January/February 1999)

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