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Site‐Specific Applications of Probabilistic Health Risk Assessment: Review of the Literature Since 2000
Author(s) -
Lester Richard R.,
Green Laura C.,
Linkov Igor
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
risk analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1539-6924
pISSN - 0272-4332
DOI - 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2007.00890.x
Subject(s) - probabilistic risk assessment , risk analysis (engineering) , harm , probabilistic logic , risk assessment , scale (ratio) , computer science , business , political science , computer security , geography , law , artificial intelligence , cartography
Whether and to what extent contaminated sites harm ecologic and human health are topics of considerable interest, but also considerable uncertainty. Several federal and state agencies have approved the use of some or many aspects of probabilistic risk assessment (PRA), but its site‐specific application has often been limited to high‐profile sites and large projects. Nonetheless, times are changing: newly developed software tools, and recent federal and state guidance documents formalizing PRA procedures, now make PRA a readily available method of analysis for even small‐scale projects. This article presents and discusses a broad review of PRA literature published since 2000. 3