Risk Assessment and Management

Dear Colleagues,

Risk is defined as the chance of harmful effects to human health or to ecological systems resulting from exposure to an environmental stressor. Risk assessment encompasses three pillars; environmental concerns, social/cultural development, and economic dimensions in the built environment. The second pillar concerns risk assessment and also education. In order to enlarge the impact of this Special Issue, the authors are asked to submit works not only on risk assessment but also on risk management. Risk assessment allows defining priorities of intervention in many cases of concern. Risk management can integrate the previous item with the analysis of solutions aimed to protect human health from many pathways of human exposure. In particular, but not exclusively, these pathways can concern water, air, waste, sites to be remediated. The interest of this Special Issue towards these pathways is related to the non-negligible effects on human health that can be found in spite to the compliance of regulations on environmental management. Safety and Health at Work is a topic that can focus on a particular aspect of risk. The purpose of this Special Issue is to enhance the knowledge of scientists, scholars, engineers, economists and graduate students on present ongoing research activities in order to exchange research ideas in the area of risk assessment and management. The Guest Editors will select high quality research to proceed with blind peer reviews. Reviewers will be selected among researchers active in the field, whose works are present in international databases.

Dr. Elena Cristina Rada
Prof. Dr. Lucian-Ionel Cioca
Collection Editors

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