A Procedure for Ecological Tiered Assessment of Risks (PETAR)

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 349-371

  Moraes, Rosana ^a,b   Molander, Sverker ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Golder Associates Brazil   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Developing country; Ecological risk assessment; Large scale; Local scale; Multiple stressors; Weight of evidence approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544374212     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030490438427     Document Type: Article

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