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Environmental Risk Assessment

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Course Unit Code546-0415/03
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *First Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
LAP20prof. Ing. Vladimír Lapčík, CSc.
KRE71Ing. Hana Švehláková, Ph.D.
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.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
After completion of the „Complex Assessment of Environment“ students will understand the risk assessment and management of impact contamineted environment on human health and "health" of ecosystems according to US EPA method.
Course Contents
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.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
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).
HOLOUBEK, I. a kol. Ekologická rizika - Hodnocení environmentálních rizik. Praha: MŽP ČR, 1995. Závěrečná zpráva projektu: Program péče o životní prostředí, č. VZ/5200/95.
Postup zpracování analýzy rizik. Metodický pokyn MŽP ČR, Zpravodaj MŽP č. 8, 1996.
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.
Recommended Reading:
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.
Metodický pokyn MŽP pro analýzu rizik kontaminovaného území, Věstník MŽP, částka 9, str.1, září 2005.
Metodický pokyn MŽP pro průzkum kontaminovaného území, Věstník MŽP, částka 9, str. 1 a 42, září 2005.
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).
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Project work
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit33 17
        ExaminationExamination67 34