Environmental risk mapping of pollutants: State of the art and communication aspects

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 3899-3907

  Lahr, Joost ^a   Kooistra, Lammert ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environmental pollution; Environmental risk assessment; Geographic information systems; Risk communication; Risk map

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS; GENERAL PUBLICS; HAZARD MAP; POLICY MAKERS; RISK COMMUNICATION; RISK MAPS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SPATIAL AGGREGATION; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; STATE OF THE ART; TARGET AUDIENCE; VISUALISATION; VULNERABILITY MAPS;

COMMUNICATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MAPS; POLLUTION; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; VISUALIZATION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

BENZENE; CADMIUM; LEAD; PESTICIDE;

CARTOGRAPHY; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; GIS; MAPPING METHOD; POLLUTION MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; STAKEHOLDER;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LEAD POISONING; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77955087440     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.10.045     Document Type: Article

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