ENVM 646 - Environmental Risk Assessment

Unit(s): 2

This course introduces students to methods for analyzing risks to human health and ecological systems from environmental hazards. After considering definitions and types of risks, the course examines components of toxics risk assessment: hazard identification, basic models for estimating pollutant concentration and human exposure, dose-response assessment, and risk characterization. In addition, we examine emerging applications of risk assessment, including ecological risk, and the shift from risk to resilience and sustainability.

Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate; Field of Study restricted to Environmental Management Major
College of Arts and Sciences