Current Progress of Environmental Risk Assessment Research
Liu Yang-sheng · 2003
Environmental Risk Assessment is a multidisciplinary field that has been developed since 1970s to address the new issues in environment protection. It provides theoretical and scientific frameworks for environmental risk management and decisionmaking. This paper introduces the basic concepts, development history, recent research methods and results as well as their applications. It then discusses the existing problems in current environmental risk assessment practices and points out the field′s future development trend as well as some specific suggestions.