Lecture 12 - Risk Assessment and Risk Management, I
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Learning Objectives
- Develop a basic understanding of risk assessment and its role within the risk management process.
- Differentiate between risk assessment and risk management.
- Develop a basic understanding of how to conduct and evaluate an uncertainty analysis for a risk assessment.
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Advanced Reading
- Richards 2nd ed., pp 425-442
- USEPA "What is Risk?"
- USEPA "Conducting a Human Health Risk Assessment"
- USEPA "Conducting an Ecological Risk Assessment"
Resources
Keywords
- Risk
- Risk assessment
- Hazard
- Exposure
- Uncertainty
- Individual lifetime exposure
- Indicator species
- Ecological risk assessment
- Acceptable risk
- Risk perception
- Risk management
- Risk communication
- Probability
Suggested Reading
- "Risk Assessment Portal" USEPA
- Case study: Se Human Health Risk Model (spreadsheet of deterministic inputs and outputs).
- Case study: Se Human Health Risk Model (stochastic output of above model).
- Case study: Se Human Health Risk Model (model equations).
- Case study: Se Human Health Risk Model (assumptions)
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