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Environmental Risk Assessment: A Practical Guide for the Corporate Manager »

Book cover image of Environmental Risk Assessment: A Practical Guide for the Corporate Manager by Kurt A. Frantzen

Authors: Kurt A. Frantzen (Editor), John Voorhees
ISBN-13: 9781566703796, ISBN-10: 1566703794
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: November 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Kurt A. Frantzen

Book Synopsis

All corporations must perform evaluations to define the risks to public health and the environment. Your corporation can get the edge by evaluating risk with a process that begins with the "end-in-mind" for the property and that concludes with a cogently communicated argument that addresses the issues. With this in mind, Risk-Based Analysis for Environmental Managers provides scientific strategies and techniques for reducing corporate environment liabilities.

This practical guide provides a new, integrated perspective on the role of risk assessment in managing contaminated properties. It describes how to manage the assessment to impact decision making. The book provides you with a crisp, historical review and background development and an integrated technique called Risk-Based Analysis. This technique includes:

  • A problem formulation tool
  • Situation analysis techniques
  • Risk assessment management
  • Risk management option analysis
  • Guidance on the development of risk arguments and their communication

    Working with a foundation of knowledge and strength will enable you to build a creative, value-added position that minimizes the risk potential through cost-effective techniques and returns the impaired property to valuable use. Risk-Based Analysis will help you obtain this goal, and Risk-Based Analysis for Environmental Managers give you the tools you need to use Risk-Based Analysis to its full potential.

  • Table of Contents

    Ch. 1Reality-Based Management1
    Ch. 2Environmental Risk Management19
    Ch. 3Interfacing the Assessment, Management, and Communication of Risk59
    Ch. 4The Practice of Risk-Based Analysis95
    App. AEvolution of the Risk Paradigm127
    App. BEvaluating Financial Liability Implications of Environmental Risk159
    App. CRisk Communication Basics171
    App. DRisk-Based Analysis Workbook181
    App. E: Acronyms and Glossary203
    References211
    Index225

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