Issues in Risk Assessment (1993) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
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Hazards include unintentional hazards, such as pollution and soil erosion, and deliberate management activities, such as forestry and fishing, that often are hazardous either to a managed resource itself or to other components of the environment. The committee believes that a general framework analogous to the human health risk assessment framework described in the NRC's 1983 report is needed to define the relationship of ecological risk assessment to environmental management and to facilitate the development of uniform technical guidelines.
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• Identification of environmental research topics and data needs common to many ecological risk assessment problems. Ecological risk assessment is an extraordinarily diverse field whose practitioners include ecologists, fish and wildlife biologists, toxicologists, and pollution-control engineers.
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Many such issues were identified at the workshop, and discussion summaries included in Appendices C-H should provide valuable material for future expert committees charged with evaluating the scientific basis of ecological risk assessment and developing inference guidelines. Chapter 2 of this report defines the broad uses of ecological risk assessment and its relevance to environmental decision-making at the levels of the individual program, the agency, and society at large.
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Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.INTRODUCTION 246
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