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Green Triangle Bullet Point A Journalist's Handbook on Environmental Risk Assessment
The purpose of this primer is to give the reporter an understanding of how risk assessment is currently practiced and publicized. It is intended to enable the journalist to sort through the numbers and scientific terminology to detect whether they are getting the whole story and to identify the strengths and weaknesses of a study.
Green Triangle Bullet Point Journal Article: Retrospective on U.S. Health Risk Assessment
From Risk: Health, Safety & Environment, vol.6, p.283-332 (Fall 1995). This paper is based on a presentation made at the 1st International Ecological Risk Assessment Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
Green Triangle Bullet Point Lecture Notes: Environmental Risk Assessment (Penn State University)
This case study simulation covers the basic concepts of environmental risk assessment.
Green Triangle Bullet Point Ministry of Ontario’s Risk Assessment Frameworks
This site contains descriptions of the methods of risk assessment, risk management and risk communication that are being promoted the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), across the disciplines of food safety, animal health and plant health. A general framework of risk assessment is described within an overall context of risk analysis.
Green Triangle Bullet Point National Research Council: Science and Judgment in Risk Assessment
This National Academy of Sciences report is aimed at a multidisciplanary audience with differing levels of technical understanding. The report includes several sections: The background of risk assessment and current practices of the EPA; specific concerns in risk assessment, such as the use of defaults and extraploations; cross-cutting issues that affect all parts of risk assessment, such as how uncertaintity is handled or the accuracy of models; and, implementation issues related to Section 112 of the 1990 Amendments of the Clean Air Act.
Green Triangle Bullet Point Risk Assessment in the Superfund Program (including EPA’s guidance on human and ecological risk assessment)
This site describes how risk data is used at each step in the Superfund process, from the early stages of investigation to the Record of Decision and site cleanup.
Green Triangle Bullet Point Taking the Risk out of Reporting Risk Assesment
This exerpt from the Foundation for American Communications (FACS) book, "Reporting on Risk," offers a plain, clear description of how scientists assess risk, what questions the journalist should ask them, and some tips for explaining it all to their audience.
Green Triangle Bullet Point Understanding Risk
This explanation of risk is a simplification of an article by EPA's Dorothy Patton, "The ABCs of Risk Assessment," EPA Journal, Jan/Feb/Mar 1993.
Green Triangle Bullet Point What is Ecological Risk Assessment
This site provides an overview of concepts in ecological risk management including planning, risk assessment and risk communication.
Green Triangle Bullet Point What is Human Health Risk Assessment
This article describes the EPA Superfund's human health risk assessment process in general terms.
Green Triangle Bullet Point What is Risk Assessment
This article describes the process of risk assessment in general terms.

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