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Comparative Risk Assessment and Environmental Decision Making

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Igor Linkov

    1. ICF Consulting, Lexington, USA
      Cambridge Environmental, Inc., Cambridge, USA

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  2. Abou Bakr Ramadan

    1. Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, Egypt

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series: IV: (NAIV, volume 38)

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Table of contents (31 papers)

  2. Case Studies in Risk Assessment and Environmental Decision Making

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 333-333
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    2. Water Quality Challenges Facing Egypt

      • S. T. Abdel-Gawad
      Pages 335-347

    3. Risk Assessment of Occupational Exposure to Pesticides

      • A. M. Attia
      Pages 349-362

    4. The Role of Air Pollutants and Sewage Waste in Acceleration of Degradation of the Islamic Cultural Heritage of Cairo

      • A. A. El-Metwally, A. Bakr Ramadan
      Pages 363-370

    5. Irrigation with Treated Wastewater in Israel-Assessment of Environmental Aspects

      • N. Haruvy
      Pages 371-379

    6. The Environment Sector in Jordan

      • B. Hayek
      Pages 381-384

    7. Comparative Risk Assessment for Homogeneous and Nonhomogeneous Mammalian Populations Exposed to Low Level Radiation

      • O. A. Smirnova
      Pages 385-392

    8. Risk Assessment of the Influence of Anthropogenic Factors on Human Safety and Health

      • A. Kachinski
      Pages 393-401

    9. Environmental Risk Prevention and Environment Management in Lithuanian Military Lands

      • G. Ignatavičius
      Pages 403-412

    10. Environmental Risk Management Issues in Romania — Economic Information Policy in a Transition Period

      • I. Andreas
      Pages 413-422

    11. A Brief History of Risk Assessment and Management After the Seveso Accident

      • G. U. Fortunati
      Pages 423-429

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 431-436
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Decision making in environmental projects is typically a complex and confusing process characterized by trade-offs between socio-political, environmental, and economic impacts. Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) is a methodology applied to facilitate decision making when various activities compete for limited resources. CRA has become an increasingly accepted research tool and has helped to characterize environmental profiles and priorities on the regional and national level. CRA may be considered as part of the more general but as yet quite academic field of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). Considerable research in the area of MCDA has made available methods for applying scientific decision theoretical approaches to multi-criteria problems, but its applications, especially in environmental areas, are still limited. The papers show that the use of comparative risk assessment can provide the scientific basis for environmentally sound and cost-efficient policies, strategies, and solutions to our environmental challenges.

Editors and Affiliations

  • ICF Consulting, Lexington, USA

    Igor Linkov

  • Cambridge Environmental, Inc., Cambridge, USA

    Igor Linkov

  • Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, Egypt

    Abou Bakr Ramadan

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