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Science and decisions advancing risk assessment / [electronic resource] : Committee on Improving Risk Analysis Approaches Used by the U.S. EPA, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies. - Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2009. - xviii, 403 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references.

Evolution and use of risk assessment in the environmental protection agency : current practice and future prospects -- The design of risk assessments -- Uncertainty and variability : the recurring and recalcitrant elements of risk assessment -- Toward a unified approach to dose-response assessment -- Selection and use of defaults -- Implementing cumulative risk assessment -- Improving the utility of risk assessment -- Toward improved risk-based decision-making.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

ISBN: 9780309120470 (electronic bk.) 0309120470 (electronic bk.)

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Environmental risk assessment--United States.
Technology--Risk assessment--United States.
Health risk assessment--United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: GE150 / .N37 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 361.1