the incidence of brain neoplasm has been progressively increasing in recent years in the industrialized countries. one of the reasons for this increased incidence could be better access to health care and improved diagnosis in the industrialized countries. it also appears that caucasians have a higher incidence than blacks or hispanics or asians. a number of risk factors have been identified an...

The introduction of quality, risk, safety, health and environmental management philosophies has significantly changed industry's view of company organization and controlling processes. Quality, risk, safety, health and environmental programs and systems, such as ISO 9000, ISO 14000, process safety, and risk management are impacting the way industry will meet the challenges of safety and environ...

mitigate known exposures, extrapolate environmental remediation knowledge, and share lessons of effective risk communication from industrialized countries with less developed areas of the world. To facilitate this process, global health concerns resulting from environmental exposures need to be addressed universally. Additionally, the global scientific community must commit to working together ...

Our study of 267 U.S. firms shows that improved environmental risk management is associated with a lower cost of capital. Our findings provide an alternative perspective on the environmentaleconomic performance relationship, which has been dominated by the view that improvements in economic performance stem from better resource utilization. Firms also benefit from improved environmental risk ma...

Product take-back and recovery activities have grown in recent times as a consequence of stringent government regulations and increased customer awareness of environmental pollution. Inventory management in the context of product returns has drawn the attention of many researchers. However, the inherent complexity of the system with uncertain returns makes the analysis of the system extremely d...

A survey of numerous field studies shows that nitrogen and phosphorous export coefficients are significantly d@erent across forest, agriculture, and urban land-cover types. We used simulah’ons to estimate the land-cover composition at which there was a sigt$cant risk of nutrient loads representative of watersheds without forest cover. The results suggest that at between 20 percent and 30 percen...

This article summarizes the project and risk management of a remediation/reclamation project in Lavrion, Greece. In Thoricos the disposal of mining and metallurgical wastes in the past resulted in the contamination with heavy metals and acid mine drainage. The objective of this reclamation project was to transform this coastal zone from a contaminated site to an area suitable for recreation pur...

176 DETERMINING DISSOLVED HYDROGEN, METHANE, AND VINYL CHLORIDE CONCENTRATIONS IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION ON A NANOMOLAR SCALE WITH THE BUBBLE STRIP METHOD D.H. Kampbell, J.T. Wilson, and D.M. McInnes U.S. EPA, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Subsurface Protection and Remediation Division, P.O. Box 1198, Ada, OK 74820; ManTech Environmental Research Services Corp., East Central Universit...

Each year, US government agencies promulgate health and safety regulations that impose hundreds of millions of dollars of costs on the national economy. A key issue in developing these regulations is determining whether the value of the associated risk reductions and other benefits exceeds the value of the resources diverted from other purposes. This article explores one component of this benef...