Planning transboundary ecological risk assessments at military installations

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1193-1215

  Efroymson, Rebecca A ^a,d   Dale, Virginia H ^a   Baskaran, Latha M ^a   Chang, Michael ^b   Aldridge, Matthew ^c   Berry, Michael W ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Tennessee   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological risk assessment; Military; Problem formulation; Regional risk assessment; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 31644436883     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030500346722     Document Type: Article

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