Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessment

Abstract

The review of literature in this paper includes the assessment of risk process and addresses issues of both human as well as ecological receptors. The main objective of this review is to highlight an overview of the scientific research literature published in year 2017. The review is focused on assessment of risk on human and ecology published in the literature such as analysis, methodology, interpretation, management, uncertainty, policy and regulatory guidance. The review on ecological and human health risk assessment is divided into two main sections namely ecological and human health. The focus of the review is on the risk assessment process as it is applied to human health, ecoological systems, site investigation, aspects of remediation as well as natural resources.

Simulation, prediction and driving factor analysis of ecological risk in Savan District, Laos

“…Global academic research on ecological risk is mainly divided into environmental science (Min et al, 2013;Xu Q. et al, 2021), Ecology (Wenning, 2011), Public Environmental Health (Charabi et al, 2018), Zoology (Flores-Serrano et al, 2014), Toxicology (Fural et al, 2021) and Biodiversity Conservation (Nawrocki et al, 2019) and other directions. As far as the study area is concerned, it is mainly the river basin (Zhu et al, 2022), wetlands (Malekmohammadi and Blouchi, 2014;Li et al, 2020), desert oasis (Han et al, 2022) and other key ecological protection areas and heavy metal industrial areas such as industrial and mining wasteland (Peng et al, 2016).…”

Weighting with Life Cycle Assessment and Cradle to Cradle: A Methodology for Global Sustainability Design

“…Methods of impact analysis [5][6][7] utilize different formats: checklists, experts' judgement, flowcharts, multi-criteria analysis or simulation models. As examples, the following stand out: cumulative environmental impacts [8], life cycle assessment (LCA) [7,9], eco-costs [10], material and substance flow analysis [11], environmental and material flow cost accounting [12] and environmental risk assessment [13]. The evaluation identifies those activities and processes in the product life cycle that generate the greatest environmental load; then, a prioritization of actions is established through the control of polluting substances in two phases: (1) reduction of midpoint impacts (changes in natural environmental aspects, such as global warming or acidification) and (2) reduction of endpoints (damage effects on ecosphere elements: human being, ecosystem and resources).…”

“…Firstly, regarding the C2C Global Score (C2C GS ), the input data for the calculation are the results obtained in the C2C certification for each category. These are weighted according to the certification milestone (Basic, Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum) using expression (13).…”