Main description:

Provides a practical overview of environmental risk assessment and its application by discussing the process and providing case studies and examples.

Focuses on tools and approaches used for humans in an environment involving potential chemical hazards.

Fully updated, the first part introduces the underlying principles and techniques of the field, and the second examines case studies in terms of different risk assessment scenarios.

Risk assessment is a core requirement for the MPH degree in environmental health.

Useful "stories" suitable for case studies.

Contents:

List of Boxes

Foreword

Preface

Editors

Contributors

1. Introduction to Risk Assessment

Mark G. Robson, William A. Toscano, Qingyu Meng, and Debra A. Kaden

2. The Risk Assessment-Risk Management Paradigm

Gilbert S. Omenn and David L. Eaton

3. Risk Assessment and Regulatory Decision-Making in Environmental Health

Felicia Wu and Joseph V. Rodricks

4. Exposure Assessment: The Ways We Measure Exposure and Its Application to Risk

Assessment

Donghai Liang

5. Biological Monitoring of Exposure to Environmental Chemicals throughout the Life

Stages: Requirements and Issues to Consider for Birth Cohort Studies

Parinya Panuwet, P. Barry Ryan, Dana Boyd Barr, and Warangkana Naksen

6. Role of Epidemiology in Environmental Health Research

Wil Lieberman-Cribbin and Emanuela Taioli

7. Toxicological Basis for Risk Assessment

Mark G. Robson and William A. Toscano

8. The Application of Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Modeling to

Risk Assessment

Raymond S. H. Yang, Yasong Lu, and Zhoumeng Lin

9. Adverse Outcomes Pathways (AOPs)

Elizabeth V. Wattenberg

10. Epigenetics in Risk Assessment

Carmen Marsit and Jinze Li

11. Probabilistic Models for Characterizing Aggregate and Cumulative Risk

Qingyu Meng

12. Occupational Risk Assessment

Adam M. Finkel, Douglas O. Johns, and Christine Whittaker

13. Children's Environmental Health Risk Assessment

Rebecca C. Dzubow and Ruth A. Etzel

14. Addressing the Limits of Risk Assessment by Focusing on Safer Alternatives

Risk Assessment for Environmental Health

Joel Tickner, Molly Jacobs, and Margaret H. Whittaker

15. How European Countries Approach Regulatory Risk Assessment

Helmut Greim

16. Envirome Disorganization and Ecological Riskscapes: The Algal Bloom Epitome

Matteo Convertino and Haojiong Wang

17. Risk Communication

Elaine M. Faustman, Jill C. Falman, and Susan L. Santos

Index