Prioritizing Environmental Health Risks in the UAE

Risk Analysis

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1842-1856

  Willis, Henry H ^a   MacDonald Gibson, Jacqueline ^b   Shih, Regina A ^a   Geschwind, Sandra ^a   Olmstead, Sarah ^a   Hu, Jianhui ^a   Curtright, Aimee E ^a   Cecchine, Gary ^a   Moore, Melinda ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental health; Priority setting; Risk ranking

Indexed keywords

ABU DHABI; AMBIENT NOISE; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENT AGENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HEALTH IMPACT; POLICY DECISIONS; POWER LINES; PRIORITY SETTING; QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK RANKING; STRATEGIC PLAN; STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; WORK ENVIRONMENTS;

AIR QUALITY; CLEAN ROOMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTAMINATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MARINE POLLUTION; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; POTABLE WATER; RATING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SURVEYS;

HEALTH RISKS;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FIELD SURVEY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH RISK; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; NOISE POLLUTION; OZONE DEPLETION; PLANNING PRACTICE; POLICY STRATEGY; PRIORITIZATION; RANKING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAKEHOLDER;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; POLLUTANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 78649787432     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01463.x     Document Type: Article

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