Comparison of the combined monitoring-based and modelling-based priority setting scheme with partial order theory and random linear extensions for ranking of chemical substances

Chemosphere

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 637-649

  Lerche, Dorte ^a,b   Sorensen, Peter B ^b   Larsen, Henrik Sorensen ^c   Carlsen, Lars ^d   Nielsen, Ole John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c The Danish Environmental Protection Agency EPA   (Denmark)

^d ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Hasse diagram; Monte Carlo simulation; Priority setting methods; Random linear extensions

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MONITORING; NAPHTHALENE; PUBLIC POLICY;

RANDOM LINEAR EXTENSIONS (RLE);

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ACENAPHTHENE DERIVATIVE; ALACHLOR; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; CHLOROFORM; DICHLOROMETHANE; ENDOSULFAN; ISOPROTURON; METOLACHLOR; NAPHTHALENE;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; RANDOMIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TECHNIQUE; THEORY;

EID: 0036827206     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(02)00390-9     Document Type: Article

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