Air Toxic Risk Assessment and Management: Public Health Risk from Normal Operations

The practice of performing and managing regulatory air toxic risk assessments requires an exceptionally broadbase of understanding. The information and hands–on skills needed to evaluate the effects of air toxic emissions on human health derive from a broad range of disciplines: engineering, the physical and biological sciences, probability, statistics, and medicine. Dr. Lawrence Gratt′s Air Toxic Risk Assessment and Management provides a comprehensive study of the subject of risk assessment, showing how the various disciplines are integrated to carry out this complex process. No other resource combines the basic science underlying risk assessment with the techniques needed to perform the analyses.

Spis treści:
Introduction to Risk Assessment.
Health Risk Formulation.
Source Terms––Emission of Air Toxics.
Atmospheric Dispersion.
Exposure.
Dose–Response, Epidemiology, and Pharmacokinetics.
Risk Estimation and Measures.
Risk: Issues, Perceptions, and Communication.
Risk Management and Air Toxic Controls.
Probabilistic Health Risk Assessment.
Appendices.
Answers to Selected Exercises.
Index.