Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment

Addressing large-scale and comparative risks at the landscape level, this book focuses on assessments using the Relative Risk Model (RRM) pioneered over the last seven years, and includes case-studies from around the world.

Auteur

Wayne G. Landis, Director of Institute of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Huxely College of the Environment, Western Washington University, USA.

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As debates over how relative risk can be used to shape landscape-scale environmental management intensify, Regional-Scale Risk Assessment demonstrates the capabilities of RRM using nine case studies in the Pacific Northwest, Pennsylvania, Brazil, and Tasmania. The authors use a process of ranking and filters to interrelate different kinds of risks

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Introduction, Introdcution to the Regional Risk Assessment Using the Relative Risk Model, Interactions among Risk Assessors, Decision Makers, and Stakeholders at the Regional Scale, Application of the Relative Risk Model to Fjord of Port Valdez, Alaska, Application of the Relative Risk Model to the Upper Willamette River and Lower McKenzie River, Oregon, Codorus Creek Watershed: A Regional Ecological Risk Assessment with Field Confirmation of the Risk Patterns, Cordorus creek: Use of the Relative Risk Model Ecological Risk Assessment as a Predictive Model for Decision Making, Deveoping a Regional Ecologoical Risk Assessment: A Case Study of a Tasmanian Agricultural Catchment, Establishing Conservation Priorities in a Rain Forest Reserve in Brazil: An Application of the Regional Risk Assessment Method, Using the Relative Risk Model for Regional-Scale Ecological Risk Assessment of the Squalicum Creek Watershed, Retrospective Regional Risk Assessment Predictions and the Application of a Monte Carol Analysis for the Decline of the Cherry Point Herring Stock, Ecological Risk Assessment Using the Relative Risk Model and Incorporating a Monte Carlo Uncertainty Analysis.