Hazardous Waste Risk Assessment

Kofi Asante-Duah (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2019
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-0-367-44997-1 (ISBN)

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This book provides a comprehensive review of currently available methods and applications of risk assessment in hazardous waste management. It focuses on the use of health risk assessment to support management decisions on hazardous waste disposal and the remediation of hazardous waste sites.

Hazardous Waste Risk Assessment provides a concise yet comprehensive examination of concepts and techniques in risk assessment that can be applied to hazardous waste problems. The book emphasizes the use of health risk assessment to support management decisions on hazardous waste disposal and site remediation programs. Methods discussed include those for developing strategies for health and environmental assessment and site restoration tasks, evaluating corrective action programs, determining the effects of risk assessment results on risk management decisions in hazardous waste programs and general risk management and prevention programs, and performing safety evaluations of hazardous waste facilities. Step-by-step numerical case evaluations are used to help present the book in an easy-to-follow, realistic manner.

Features

Asante-Duah/, Kofi

1. Introduction 2. Fundamentals of Hazard, Exposures and Risk Assessment 3. Concepts in Risk Assessment 4. The Risk Assessment Process 5. Risk Assessment techniques and Methods of approach 6. Hazardous Waste Management Decisions from Risk Assessment 7. Selected Case Studies and Applications 8. Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Technische Chemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Technik ► Bauwesen
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	0-367-44997-8 / 0367449978
ISBN-13	978-0-367-44997-1 / 9780367449971
Zustand	Neuware