Author: Dirk Proske
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: risks, health, social, natural, catalogue, technical
Number of Pages: 510
Published: 2008-09-25
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 3540795545
ISBN-13: 9783540795544
The term risk has experienced a dramatic growth in usage over the last few years. This is mainly due to the growing concern about the future of mankind, but also to a greater awareness of the limited nature of our resources. People want to know what can go wrong. In the beginning terms such as risk, disaster, indeterminacy and uncertainty are discussed in detail in this book. Furthermore disasters and risks are categorized into natural, technical, health and social risks, and then major disasters in these categories are listed. Risk parameters are introduced to allow the objective descriptio
Author: Joseph V. Rodricks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: risks, chemicals, environment, health, human, toxicity, calculated
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 2006-12-04
List price: $94.99
ISBN-10: 0521783089
ISBN-13: 9780521783088
Safeguarding economic prosperity, whilst protecting human health and the environment, is at the forefront of scientific and public interest. This book provides a practical and balanced view on toxicology, control, risk assessment and risk management, addressing the interplay between science and public health policy. This fully revised and updated new edition provides a detailed analysis on chemical and by-product exposure, how they enter the body and the suitability of imposed safety limits. New chapters on dose, with particular emphasis on children and vulnerable subpopulations, reproductive
Author: UNAIDS
Publisher: World Health Organizatio
Keywords: risks, attributable, selected, disease, major, burden, health, mortality, global
Number of Pages: 68
Published: 2010-03-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9241563877
ISBN-13: 9789241563871
This report uses a comprehensive framework for studying health risks that was developed for the World Health Report 2002, which presented estimates for the year 2000. The report provides an update for the year 2004 for 24 global risk factors. It uses updated information from WHO programs and scientific studies for both exposure data and the causal associations of risk exposure to disease and injury outcomes. The burden of disease attributable to risk factors is measured in terms of lost years of healthy life using the metric of the disability-adjusted life year (DALY). The DALY combines years
Authors:M. Ezzati, A.D. Lopez, C.J.L. Murray, A. Rodgers,
Publisher: World Health Organization
Keywords: risks, attributable, diseases, selected, major, burden, regional, quantification, health, global, comparative
Number of Pages: 2278
Published: 2005-02
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 9241580313
ISBN-13: 9789241580311
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the scientific evidence on prevalence and hazards, and the resulting health effects, of a range of exposures that are known to be hazardous to human health, including childhood and maternal undernutrition, nutritional and physiological risk factors for adult health, addictive substances, sexual and reproductive health, and risks in the physical environments of households and communities, as well as among workers. This book is the culmination of over 3 years of scientific enquiry and data collection, collectively known as the Comparative Risk Ass
Author: Marine Board Committee on Oil Spill Risks from Tan
Publisher: National Academy Press
Keywords: vessel, lightering, tank, risks, spill, oil
Number of Pages: 125
Published: 1999-01-15
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0309061903
ISBN-13: 9780309061902
Study focuses narrowly on the risks of oil spills from lightering, which was defined as the transfer at sea of crude oil or petroleum products from one vessel to another. Paper.
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Develop
Publisher: OECD
Keywords: insurance, risks, related, policy, issues, environment, role, comparative, analysis, environmental, management
Number of Pages: 92
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 9264105506
ISBN-13: 9789264105508
Authors:Vladimir M. Kolodkin, Wolfgang Ruck,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: ecological, associated, destruction, risks, series, environmental, security, science, proceedings, chemical, weapons, nato, arw
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $143.00
ISBN-10: 1402031351
ISBN-13: 9781402031359
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and their Destruction provides for the elimination of chemical weapons? arsenals amassed during the Cold War. The easier-said-than-done task of removing these deadly weapons, however, poses huge environmental problems. This book is the compendium of the workshop on the
