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Corporate Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Improving Risk Analysis Approaches Used by the U.S. EPA.

Title Science and decisions [electronic resource] : advancing risk assessment / 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.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xviii, 403 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Environmental risk assessment -- United States.
Technology -- Risk assessment -- United States.
Health risk assessment -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.
National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Earth and Life Studies.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780309120463 (pbk.)
0309120462 (pbk.)
9780309120470 (electronic bk.)
0309120470 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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