Drought is a natural hazard that has significant impact on economic, agricultural, environmental, and social aspects. In the present study details analysis of rainfall data has been carried out for the years 1981-2011. Standard precipitation index (SPI) has been used to evaluate the precipitation deficit in the Karun watershed of Iran. The results indicated that 1981-82,82-83,83-84,84-85,88-89,...

Received Sep 11, 2007; Accepted Jan 25, 2008 Published online in J-STAGE Apr 11, 2008 Correspondence to: T. Oyabu, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan, 1–1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan (e-mail: [email protected]) Simple Flow-through Solubility Measureme...

Paul Hudson, W.J. Wouter Botzen, Jeffrey Czajkowski, Heidi Kreibich 1 Department of Environmental Economics, Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 2 Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, University of Pennsylvania, U.S. 3 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany. Abstract Adverse selection and moral hazard are commonl...

OEHHA prioritizes chemicals for consideration by the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant (DART) Identification Committee of OEHHA’s Science Advisory Board using the process described in the document entitled "Procedure for Prioritizing Candidate Chemicals for Consideration Under Proposition 65 by the State's Qualified Experts". The process involves selecting from chemicals proposed for eval...

World Health Organization’s International Programme on Chemical Safety. Throughout the course, the lectures explaining the theoretical concepts and principles of hazard identification, doseresponse assessment, environmental risk assessment and risk management and reduction were supported by practical examples which included dietary risk assessment cases, air pollution, cancer risk assessment ca...

The following paper presents an assessment of health risks associated with air polluted with respirable asbestos fibers in towns of southwest Poland. The aim of the work was to determine whether or not any prevention measures are necessary in order to reduce the level of exposure to the pollutant. The risk assessment was carried out based on the air analyses and the latest asbestos toxicity dat...

CARCINOGENICITY EVALUATION: BATCH #1 Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment California Environmental Protection Agency May 1997 Data summaries for 33 chemicals under consideration for carcinogenicity evaluation (i.e., Batch #1) have been finalized, and are presented here. Batch #1 chemicals were selected for prioritization from the tracking database under a process described in the dr...