"A Contrast of human health risk and ecological risk assessment: Risk assessment for an organism versus a complex nonorganismal structure" by Wayne G. Landis

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A Contrast of human health risk and ecological risk assessment: Risk assessment for an organism versus a complex nonorganismal structure

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (1995)

Wayne G. Landis, Western Washington University
Robin A. Matthews, Western Washington University
Geoffrey B. Matthews, Western Washington University

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Abstract

Human health risk assessment and ecological risk assessment deal with entities of very different structures and rules. In this brief essay, we would like to concentrate on the differences in organization, information content, and dynamics and to place these differences within an evolutionary, ecological, and practical context.

Keywords

Community conditioning,
Ecological systems,
Etiology,
Artificial intelligence

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Publication Date

1995

DOI

10.1080/10807039509380038

Publisher Statement

Published by the Taylor and Francis Group

Citation Information

Wayne G. Landis, Robin A. Matthews and Geoffrey B. Matthews. "A Contrast of human health risk and ecological risk assessment: Risk assessment for an organism versus a complex nonorganismal structure" Human and Ecological Risk Assessment Vol. 1 Iss. 5 (1995) p. 485 - 488
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/robin_matthews/31/