Environmental Risk Assessment

**Description** This second edition is a rather concise 500-page description of environmental risk assessment written from a toxicological perspective. Useful new features include sections devoted to software and platforms as well as actual examples. **Purpose** The book aims to provide a reference to enable those interested in risk assessment to gain confidence regarding their knowledge of the subject. **Audience** The audience for this book and its electronic enhancements includes both human and wildlife risk assessors, risk communicators, and a broader range of public health decision makers. **Features** The book chapters include introduction to risk assessment; perception, planning, and scoping; risk analyst's toolbox; exposure assessment; hazard characterization and dose response assessment; risk characterization; ecologic risk assessment(s); bias, conflict of interest, ignorance, and uncertainty; and emerging risks and final thoughts. **Assessment** Bridging the modern range of risk assessment guides and tutorials, this second edition begins in the old days with the Red Book, advances through Silver and, most importantly, provides us with what the author describes as a comprehensive review of the field for the next generation of risk assessors. In the book's foreword, Dr. Richard A. Becker describes author Ted Simon's risk communication and assessment skills in this edition as stellar in terms of its explanations and illustrations. I concur. ----------------------------------------------------------- Weighted Numerical Score: 97 - 5 Stars! -- John T. Pierce, MBBS(MD) PhD(Navy Environmental Health Center)