A human health risk assessment software for facilitating management of urban contaminated sites: A case study: The Massa site, Tuscany, Italy

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1005-1024

  Wcislo, Eleonora ^a   Dlugosz, Jacek ^a   Korcz, Marek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGY OF INDUSTRIAL AREAS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Human health risk assessment; Human health risk assessment software; Remedial goals; Risk based concentrations; Site management; Urban contaminated sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 39349116974     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030500257762     Document Type: Article

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