Geospatial Methods for Reducing Uncertainties in Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Challenges and Opportunities

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 942-950

  Lam, Nina Siu Ngan ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental health risk assessment; geospatial analysis; uncertainties

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864543996     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2012.674900     Document Type: Article

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