Environmental Risk. Case studies

This book presents real cases of the air, water and soil pollution with harmful substances, both toxic and mutagenic, and gives examples of environmental hazards estimation as well as health risk assessment in different exposure scenarios. The described examples include all elements of risk estimation procedure starting from hazard identification, followed by exposure assessment, determination of dose-response relation, risk characterization and ending with uncertainty analysis. The cases aim to help the reader to understand more clearly different calculation methodologies and to carry out the risk assessment in different environments. The book is intended as a selection of the representative hazard cases aimed at students, professionals and other users interested in environmental engineering, environmental chemistry, environmental safety and all areas of environmental science where human health and well-being are involved.