Can the National Classification System for Contaminated Sites be used to rank sites?

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 415-431

  Thiessen, Ron J ^a   Achari, Gopal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecological risk assessment; Hasse matrices; Hierarchical partial order ranking; Human health risk assessment; System

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; CONTAMINATED SITES; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL ORDER; QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT; RANKING PROCEDURES; SYSTEM;

CIVIL ENGINEERING;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

CONTAMINATED LAND; HEALTH RISK; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; NATIONAL PLANNING; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859332595     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: 12086029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/L2012-015     Document Type: Article

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