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Article: Ecological risk assessment
- Article from:
- Water Environment Research
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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CopyrightCopyright Water Environment Federation Jun 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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INTRODUCTION
This review addresses ecological risk-assessment methods and advances during 1997. It focuses only on innovations in risk-assessment methods, published applications of risk assessment, and additions or updates to guidance documents. The interdisciplinary nature of risk assessment depends heavily on two subjects not covered in this review, an analysis of fate and transport and our knowledge of chemical toxicity. Therefore, the reader will gain maximum benefit from also reading the companion reviews on these subjects in this volume.
ASSESSING THE PARADIGM
Risk assessors spent considerable time reevaluating ecological risk assessment, its format, and its role in decision making ...