The strengths of the ecological risk assessment process: Linking science to decision making

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 299-305

  Barnthouse, Lawrence ^a  

^a LWB Environmental Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological risk assessment; Ecology; Environmental regulation; Environmental restoration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 55249108302     PISSN: 15513793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/IEAM_2007-065.1     Document Type: Article

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