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Environmental Risk Assessment

Environmental Risk Assessment
546-0415/01
čeština Environmental Risk Assessment
546-0415/02
čeština Environmental Risk Assessment
546-0415/03
čeština

Summary

The course will cover topics relating to characterizing source areas, linking fate and transport mechanisms, evaluating exposure pathways and applying toxicology data to evaluate human health risk and environmental risk in a variety of differing contexts. The methods to be presented are applicable to all types of environmental restoration and protection engineering problems. The focus will be primarily on human health risk related to both chemical release scenarios. One of the challenges of this course for students will be to evaluate information and processes that do not all originate from familiar engineering design models.

Literature

SUTER, G. W. (editor). Ecological risk assessment. 2nd ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2007. 643 p. ISBN 978-1-56670-634
LAWSON, A. (editor). Diseases maping and risk assessment for public health. 1st ed. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. xix, 482 s. ISBN 0-471-98634-8 
KAISER, J. and N. H. ENFIELD (editors). Bioindicators and biomarkers of environmental pollution and risk assessment. Science Publishers, 2001.
US EPA - Database IRIS (EPA´S Integrated Risk Information System US EPA, Office of Health and Environmental Assessment).

Advised literature

BRIGGS, D., C. CORVALÁN, M. NURMINEN. Linkage methods for environmental and health analysis - general guidelines. Geneva: WHO/EHG/95.26, 1996.
KUNREUTHER, H. and P. SLOVIC (editors). Challenges in risk assessment and risk management. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Periodical Press, 1996. 220 s.
US EPA - Database IRIS (EPA´S Integrated Risk Information System US EPA, Office of Health and Environmental Assessment).
Diseases maping and risk assessment for public health. Edited by Andrew LAWSON. 1st ed. Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 2002. xix, 482 s. ISBN 0-471-98634-8 .


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Language of instruction čeština, čeština, čeština
Code 546-0415
Abbreviation HER
Course title Environmental Risk Assessment
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Vladimír Lapčík, CSc.