Including pathogen risk in life cycle assessment of wastewater management. 2. Quantitative comparison of pathogen risk to other impacts on human health

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 9446-9453

  Heimersson, Sara ^a   Harder, Robin ^a   Peters, Gregory M ^a   Svanström, Magdalena ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; HEALTH; HEAVY METALS; LIFE CYCLE; NATURAL RESOURCES; PATHOGENS; RISK PERCEPTION; SEWAGE SLUDGE; WASTE INCINERATION;

DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL; HUMAN TOXICITY POTENTIALS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); ORGANIC MICRO-POLLUTANTS; PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISMS; PHOTOCHEMICAL OXIDANTS; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON;

HEALTH RISKS;

HEAVY METAL; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); INCINERATION; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN RISK; PATHOGENESIS; PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG; POLLUTANT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECYCLING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLUDGE; SLUDGE TREATMENT; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEWAGE; STANDARDS; THEORETICAL MODEL; WASTE WATER;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; INCINERATION; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84906225478     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es501481m     Document Type: Article

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