A risk-based methodology for ranking environmental chemical stressors at the regional scale

Environment International

Volumn 65, Issue , 2014, Pages 41-53

  Giubilato, Elisa ^a   Zabeo, Alex ^a   Critto, Andrea ^a   Giove, Silvio ^a   Bierkens, Johan ^b   Den Hond, Elly ^b   Marcomini, Antonio ^a  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^b FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Environmental chemical stressors; Human biomonitoring; Human health risk assessment; Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA); Weight of Evidence

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATION; DATA INTEGRATION; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY LOGIC; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); MATRIX ALGEBRA; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICALS; HUMAN BIOMONITORING; HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; WEIGHT OF EVIDENCES;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CADMIUM; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

BIOMONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HEALTH RISK; METHODOLOGY; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRESS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION;

BELGIUM;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL STRESSORS; HUMAN BIOMONITORING; HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS (MCDA); WEIGHT-OF-EVIDENCE;

ADOLESCENT; BELGIUM; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84892448136     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2013.12.013     Document Type: Article

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