TITLE:
Progress in the Development of Environmental Risk Assessment as a Tool for the Decision-Making Process
AUTHORS:
Kankan Wu, Luoping Zhang
KEYWORDS:
Environmental Risk Assessment, Progress, Types, Approaches, Methods, Decision-Making
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Service Science and Management,
Vol.7 No.2,
April
30,
2014
ABSTRACT:
Environmental
Risk Assessment (ERA) is a powerful technical and analytical set of instruments
for analyzing adverse environmental impacts, and has found some application in
supporting the decision-making process over the last two decades. In this
paper, the progress of ERA, including history, types, approaches and methods,
are introduced, and the current problems and development prospects of ERAs for
decision-making processes are discussed.