Terminated in academic year 2024/2025
Environmental Risk Assessment
| Type of study | Follow-up Master |
|---|---|
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Code | 546-0415/03 |
| 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. Mathematical and
statistical tools to analyze biological models, multidimensional data
analysis.
13. Risk Management. Laws and Regulations.
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. Mathematical and
statistical tools to analyze biological models, multidimensional data
analysis.
13. Risk Management. Laws and Regulations.
E-learning
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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).
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 .
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 .