Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Environmental Risk Assessment

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	546-0415/02
Abbreviation	HER
Course title	Environmental Risk Assessment
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Vladimír Lapčík, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction. What is risk? What is a stressor? What is a hazard? Risk Assessment. Risk Management. EPA.
2. Natural risks. Antropogenous risks. Risk perception. Risk acceptance.
3. Human Health Risk Assessment: Planning and Scoping Process. Hazard identification.
4. Human Health Risk Assessment: Dose – response relationship.
5. Human Health Risk Assessment: Exposure assessment.
6. Human Health Risk Assessment: Risk charakterization.
7. Ecological Risk Assessment: Planning and Scoping Process. Problem formulation.
8. Ecological Risk Assessment: Methods. Conceptions.
9. Ecological Risk Assessment: Analysis. Bioindication. Biomonitoring.
10. Ecological Risk Assessment: Dose - response relationship. Bioacumulation.
11. Ecological Risk Assessment: Risk charakterization.
12. Useful databases end software support in risk assessment.
13. Mathematical and statistical tools to analyze biological models, multidimensional data analysis.
14. Risk Management. Laws and Regulations.

E-learning

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.
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. .

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