TY  - BOOK
ED  - National Research Council (U.S.).
ED  - United States.
ED  - National Academy of Sciences (U.S.),
ED  - National Research Council (U.S.).
TI  - Science and decisions: advancing risk assessment 
SN  - 9780309120463
AV  - GE150 .N37 2009eb
U1  - 361.1 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The National Academies Press
KW  - Environmental risk assessment
KW  - United States
KW  - Technology
KW  - Risk assessment
KW  - Health risk assessment
KW  - Threshold limit values (Industrial toxicology)
KW  - Risk Assessment
KW  - methods
KW  - Environmental Pollutants
KW  - adverse effects
KW  - Maximum Allowable Concentration
KW  - Environmental Exposure
KW  - Government Agencies
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Environnement
KW  - Évaluation du risque
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Technologie
KW  - Risques pour la santé
KW  - Évaluation
KW  - Limites d'exposition professionnelle (Toxicologie)
KW  - Exposition (Toxicologie)
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Social Services & Welfare
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Human Services
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Complemented by Risk assessment in the federal government / Committee on the Institutional Means for Assessment of Risks to Public Health, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council. 1983; Includes bibliographical references; Evolution and use of risk 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
N2  - Risk assessment has become a dominant public policy tool for making choices, based on limited resources, to protect public health and the environment. It has been instrumental to the mission of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well as other federal agencies in evaluating public health concerns, informing regulatory and technological decisions, prioritizing research needs and funding, and in developing approaches for cost-benefit analysis. However, risk assessment is at a crossroads. Despite advances in the field, risk assessment faces a number of significant challenges including lengthy delays in making complex decisions; lack of data leading to significant uncertainty in risk assessments; and many chemicals in the marketplace that have not been evaluated and emerging agents requiring assessment. Science and Decisions makes practical scientific and technical recommendations to address these challenges. This book is a complement to the widely used 1983 National Academies book, Risk Assessment in the Federal Government (also known as the Red Book). The earlier book established a framework for the concepts and conduct of risk assessment that has been adopted by numerous expert committees, regulatory agencies, and public health institutions. The new book embeds these concepts within a broader framework for risk-based decision-making. Together, these are essential references for those working in the regulatory and public health fields
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