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As debates over how relative risk can be used to shape landscape-scale environmental management intensify, Regional-Scale Risk Assessment demonstrates the capabilities of RRM using nine case studies in the Pacific Northwest, Pennsylvania, Brazil, and Tasmania. The authors use a process of ranking and filters to interrelate different kinds of risks and illustrates how these relative risks are defined, mapped, and analyzed to determine remediation and management priorities. This book provides detailed descriptions for each step of RRM - from the determination of assessment goals to documentation, evaluation, and communication with decision-makers that can benefit practitioners in environmental risk assessment and related fields worldwide.
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INTRODUCTION, Wayne G. LandisINTRODUCTION TO THE REGIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT USING THE RELATIVE RISK MODEL, Wayne G. Landis and Janice K. WiegersINTERACTIONS AMONG RISK ASSESSORS, DECISION MAKERS, AND STAKEHOLDERS AT THE REGIONAL SCALE: THE IMPORTANCE OF CONNECTING LANDSCAPE-LEVEL ENDPOINTS WITH MANAGEMENT DECISIONS, P. Bruce DuncanAPPLICATION OF THE RELATIVE RISK MODEL TO THE FJORD OF PORT VALDEZ, ALASKA, Janice K. Wiegers and Wayne G. LandisAPPLICATION OF THE RELATIVE RISK MODEL TO THE UPPER WILLAMETTE RIVER AND LOWER MCKENZIE RIVER, OREGON, Matthew Luxon and Wayne G. LandisCODORUS CREEK WATERSHED: A REGIONAL ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT WITH FIELD CONFIRMATION OF THE RISK PATTERNS, Angela M. Obery, Jill F. Thomas, and Wayne G. LandisCODORUS CREEK: USE OF THE RELATIVE RISK MODEL ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT AS A PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR DECISION MAKING, Jill F. ThomasDEVELOPING A REGIONAL ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A TASMANIAN AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT, Rachel Walker, Wayne G. Landis, and Philip BrownESTABLISHING CONSERVATION PRIORITIES IN A RAIN FOREST RESERVE IN BRAZIL: AN APPLICATION OF THE REGIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT METHOD, Rosana Moraes, Wayne G. Landis, and Sverker MolanderUSING THE RELATIVE RISK MODEL, Joy C. Chen and Wayne G. LandisTHE USE OF REGIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE MARINE RESOURCES IN THE CHERRY POINT REGION OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON, April J. MarkiewiczRETROSPECTIVE REGIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT PREDICTIONS AND THE APPLICATION OF A MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS FOR THE DECLINE OF THE CHERRY POINT HERRING STOCK, Wayne G. Landis, Emily Hart Hayes, and April M. MarkiewiczTHE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT USING THE RELATIVE RISK MODEL AND INCORPORATING A MONTE CARLO UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS, Emily Hart Hayes and Wayne G. Landis INDEX
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