The Evolution of Frameworks for Ecological Risk Assessment from the Red Book Ancestor
| Autor: | Lawrence W. Barnthouse, Glenn W. Suter, Susan B. Norton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Engineering
business.industry Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Ecological Modeling IUPAC nomenclature of inorganic chemistry 2005 Environmental ethics Oak Ridge National Laboratory Pollution Logical framework Work (electrical) Agency (sociology) Ecological risk Engineering ethics business Risk assessment Ancestor |
| Zdroj: | Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal. 9:1349-1360 |
| ISSN: | 1549-7860 1080-7039 |
| Popis: | The risk assessment framework presented in the National Research Council (NRC) Red Book played a key role in the development of ecological risk assessment (ERA). ERA frameworks have, however, developed along their own pathway and have significantly extended concepts that were introduced in the Red Book. When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) commissioned the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 1981 to develop and apply methods for ERA, the work focused on probabilistic analysis, since that seemed to be the essence of risk. When the Red Book appeared, it suggested that the use of a logical framework to guide the process was also an important aspect of risk assessment. Therefore, the ORNL investigators developed a framework similar to the Red Book framework but more suited to ERA. When EPA initiated a project to develop an official EPA framework for ERA, the ORNL framework was presented in a colloquium intended to obtain input from scientists outside EPA. Later, the NRC sponsored a workshop... |
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