Comments on Dr. Finkel's Paper on Solution Focused Risk Assessment (SFRA)

Paustenbach, Dabt Dennis J.

doi:10.1080/10807039.2011.588147

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“…As a way to reduce analytical complexity, the NRC (2009) and others (Finkel 2011;Davies 2011;Goldstein 2011;Hope 2011;Omenn 2011;Paustenbach 2011) have suggested that CRA be oriented around evaluation of risk management options instead of characterization of problems. The idea is to begin the CRA process by comparing the relative costs and benefits of viable control options instead of trying to make specific (usually quantitative) statements about the severity and probability of health risks.…”

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Cumulative Health Risk Assessment: Finding New Ideas and Escaping from the Old Ones

Sexton

2014

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal

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Cumulative risk assessment (CRA) is an emergent tool for organizing and analyzing scientific information to examine, characterize, and possibly quantify adverse health outcomes from combined effects of exposure to diverse environmental factors, including both chemical and nonchemical stressors. This article examines the implementation of effects-based CRA, which emphasizes evaluating health risks in a defined community or population, as opposed to stressor-based approaches, which focus on determining health risks for a defined set of stressors. It discusses the concept of vulnerability-based CRA as a potentially useful alternative, reviews the conceptual constructs that underpin CRA, surveys the diversity of methods available for putting effects-based principles into practice, identifies impediments hindering practical applications, and examines ways to make effects-based CRA more feasible.

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Section: Central Questionmentioning

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Cumulative Health Risk Assessment: Finding New Ideas and Escaping from the Old Ones

Sexton

2014

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal

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“…The strengths and weaknesses of the solution-focused approach have been discussed in the literature (Davies, 2011;Finkel, 2011;Hope, 2011;Paustenbach, 2011;Rodricks and Levy, 2013). Confronted with the case study experiences, there is a net positive match between perceived and experienced advantages, and practical solutions were generated for perceived disadvantages (Table 5).…”

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Definition and use of Solution-focused Sustainability Assessment: A novel approach to generate, explore and decide on sustainable solutions for wicked problems

Posthuma

Wintersen

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Environment International

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“…But in 2011, the NRC published Sustainability and the U.S. EPA (known informally as the Green Book), which proposed an operational structure for integrating sustainability into decision making at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and examined how the conventional RA-RM paradigm could be integrated into this new sustainability framework [2]. While there have been scattered attempts in the past to reconcile environmental risk management and sustainability as complementary or overlapping concepts [3][4][5][6][7][8], including efforts to develop new approaches and processes [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18], there are few examples of applications that juxtapose the distinct methodologies for sustainability evaluation and risk assessment/management [19][20][21][22].…”

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A Pathway to Linking Risk and Sustainability Assessments

Linder

Sexton²

2014

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The US National Research Council recently released a report promoting sustainability assessment as the future of environmental regulation. Thirty years earlier, this organization (under the same senior author) had issued a similar report promoting risk assessment as a new method for improving the science behind regulatory decisions. Tools for risk assessment were subsequently developed and adopted in state and federal agencies throughout the US. Since then, limitations of the traditional forms of risk assessment have prompted some dramatic modifications toward cumulative assessments that combine multiple chemical and non-chemical stressors in community settings. At present, however, there is little momentum within the risk assessment community for abandoning this evolved system in favor of a new sustainability-based one. The key question is, how best to proceed? Should sustainability principles be incorporated into current risk assessment procedures, or vice versa? Widespread recognition of the importance of sustainability offers no clear guidance for the risk assessment community, especially in light of institutional commitments to sustainability tools and definitions that appear to have little in common with cumulative risk notions. The purpose of this paper is to reframe the sustainability challenge for risk assessors by offering analytical guidance to chart a way out. We adopt a decision analysis framework to

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Comments on Dr. Finkel's Paper on Solution Focused Risk Assessment (SFRA)

Cited by 3 publications

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Cumulative Health Risk Assessment: Finding New Ideas and Escaping from the Old Ones

Cumulative Health Risk Assessment: Finding New Ideas and Escaping from the Old Ones

Definition and use of Solution-focused Sustainability Assessment: A novel approach to generate, explore and decide on sustainable solutions for wicked problems

A Pathway to Linking Risk and Sustainability Assessments

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