Integrating Health in Environmental Risk Assessments

Environmental Risk Assessment and Management from a Landscape Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 143-156

  Froese, Kenneth L ^a   Orenstein, Marla ^b  

^a Habitat Health Impact Consulting Corp ^*

^b Habitat Health Impact Consulting   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health impact assessment (HIA) and Integrated Assessment; Integrating health into environmental risk assessments; Toward a systems approach for integrating health in EnRA

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953739185     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470593028.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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