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Environmental Risk Assessment familiarizes readers with risk assessment for the main environmental systems that are surveyed: soil, water, and air. The text aims to enable learners to develop knowledge and awareness about environmental risk management and take action to transform society into a sustainable one. The eight edited chapters start with an introduction to the subject and an outline of good practices in risk assessment. The latter half presents a risk-based approach to the environment and provides a deep dive into risk management implementation for contaminated sites, monitoring air quality, evaluating drinking water for safety, and risk analysis in waste management. Concepts are explained in simple language with references included for further reading. This book is an essential guideline for students who require knowledge of risk assessment in environmental engineering programs or related course modules.

Environmental risk assessment. --- Pollution.

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No âmbito do Instituto Jurídico da Faculdade de Direito de Coimbra, foi criado, em 2014, o grupo de investigação Risco-Transparência-Litigiosidade, com o objetivo principal de analisar a problemática do Risco e as suas repercussões ao nível da dogmática jurídica, numa perspetiva interdisciplinar. Neste quadro, considerou-se relevante estudar a responsabilidade da empresa na sua relação com a tutela do ambiente. O tema, necessariamente amplo, contende com diversas matérias, sendo chamados a depor diferentes ramos do direito como o direito constitucional, o direito civil, o direito penal, o direito comercial, o direito fiscal, o direito administrativo, o que, por si só, garantiria a análise interdisciplinar que se procurou privilegiar.

Environmental risk assessment. --- Risk assessment --- Precautionary principle

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Environmental risk assessment --- Pollution --- Risk assessment

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How is a changing climate affecting hurricanes, and how are these changes intersecting with our changing exposure and vulnerability in ways that affect tropical cyclone risk? Crucially, how should this understanding be incorporated into risk management practice? This book takes a cross-sectoral look at how damaging tropical cyclone characteristics are changing and presents novel approaches to integrate science with risk assessment. In this new era of tropical cyclone impacts, understanding effective risk management practice in a changing climate is more important than ever. This book details the outcomes of new research focusing on climate risk related to hurricanes in a changing climate. Topics include characteristics of tropical cyclone risk, perspectives on hurricane risk management strategies in the built environment, and implications for commercial risk. Inspired by the Symposium on Hurricane Risk in a Changing Climate, this book brings together leading international academics and researchers, and provides a source reference for both risk managers and climate scientists for research on the interface between tropical cyclones, climate, and risk. Eight chapters are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com

Climatic changes --- Hurricanes. --- Risk assessment. --- Cyclones --- Environmental risk assessment

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Protective forests are a key component to reduce natural hazard risks in mountain areas by preventing or decreasing the frequency, magnitude and/or intensity of snow avalanches, rockfall, landslides, floods, and debris flows. This book summarizes the state-of-the-art knowledge and introduces methods and decision support tools to facilitate the use of protective forests for Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) as part of an integrated risk management in the Alpine Space. Moreover, it highlights how translating scientific knowledge into practical solutions can only be achieved by an active and iterative exchange with practitioners and policy makers, and a common understanding of applied concepts and definitions. Only then can protective forests be managed sustainably under constantly changing climate and socio-economic conditions.

Environmental risk assessment. --- Forests and forestry --- Climatic factors.