Environmental risk assessment and management froma landscape perspective

Equipping and educating private and public sector authorities about the growing complexities in environmental management and risk assessment involves four distinct disciplines: Landscape Ecology, Environmental Risk Assessment, Valuation of Ecological Goods and Services, and Environmental Management Decision Processes. This book assembles chapters capturing the state-of-the-art / sciencein each of these four areas to serve as a foundation for students and practitioners engaged in environmental management. Chapters include such topics as quantitative measures and modeling, risk assessments (marine, forest, agricultural, pharmaceuticals), environmental economics, and decision analysis tools.Lawrence Kapustka is Senior Ecologist / Ecotoxicologist for LK Consultancy. Previously, he has worked as an ecologist and toxicologist in at Golder Associates and with the EPA and is a former Professor at the University of Miami. Dr.Kapustka has extensive experience with site- and chemical-based risk assessments and toxicity testing. He has a strong publications list, including editingLandscape Ecology and Wildlife Habitat Evaluation (ASTM, 2004). He is a member of ASTM, ESA, SRA, and SETAC (chair of Ecological Risk Assessment group). Wayne Landis is Director and Professor of the Institute of Environmental Toxicology as well as Chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences at Western Washington University. Dr. Landis is one of the founding editors of the SETAC journal Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management and serves on the Editorial Board for the Human and Ecological Risk Assessment. Among his long listof journal and book publications are Introduction to Environmental Toxicology, 3rd Edition (CRC, 2003) and Regional-Scale Risk Assessment (CRC, 2004).

• ISBN: 978-0-470-08997-2
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 416
• Fecha Publicación: 07/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés