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INTEGRATION OF ECOLOGICAL RISK INTO THE 1983 FRAMEWORK
Pages 254-254

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... Finally, the committee believes that prospects for integration of human and ecological concerns into comprehensive environmental policies protective of both will be enhanced if a common framework and terminology can be found that describes both kinds of risk assessments. The committee agrees with the consensus at the workshop that the framework defined in the 1983 report is inadequate as written for application to ecological problems because the framework (1)
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